Page AZ Day 2 -- photos may be pending

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Tuesday the 13th, Geoff was up and out at dawn to catch the sunrise at Horseshoe Bend, and was greatly gratified to have a couple of hours to capture images unimpeded by either other tourists or scratched plexiglass. "The light was optimum for photos and really showed the canyon to advantage! It's a breathtaking spot. You walk up the the lip of the canyon and it's a sheer maybe thousand foot drop, a long-ish way," he recounts.

When he arrived back at the motel, the breakfast crowd was departing for the diner that proffered the heart-attack-heaven hamburger the night before, which was now offering the coronary-bypass breakfast special. "Good food and plenty of it..." After breakfast, some of the group repaired to the motel for R+R+L (rest, recuperation and laundry), while Dick, Ruth and Geoff embarked on a car tour of Lower Lake Powell and Escalante National Monument area. Beautiful weather, warm, clear blue skies...with a raging snowstorm we could actually see whipping Flagstaff 200 miles to the south! That snowstorm gave us an additional day in Page, with nary an ill effect on us except another day's delay to the schedule.

The small group rejoined the others at the motel and after lunch departed en mass to drive a tour of the Glen Canyon Dam, the actual dam itself. After the dam tour, it was back to the Dam Bar for a quick dinner. Three of the group went back to the motel for more rest, and Dick, Ruth and Geoff returned to the Dam to hear a photography lecture by a noted Arizona photographer Jack Dykinga who had just published an exquisite book (http://www.photographybay.com/2008/04/07/arizona-highways-photography-guide-review/) of photos of the entire Grand Canyon area. It was a slide show, and his narrative suggested that the canyon takes a lot of patience and lot of time. "If you see the shot and you're not already set up, you've probably missed it," the fellow said. He will arrive on a location before dawn and set up his equipment, and wait the entire day if need be to get the shot he wants. The photos showed it! His big message, no less relevant for this group of pilots:

"You have to have infinite patience!"

And, oh, by the way, he shoots film with a 4x5 View camera, not digital!

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