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In September 2016, I had a wonderful trip white water rafting on the Colorado River through the Grand Canyon. The primary purpose of my trip was to... more
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In September 2016, I had a wonderful trip white water rafting on the Colorado River through the Grand Canyon. The primary purpose of my trip was to capture some nightscape images. This one was shot from the water's edge below our campsite, looking across the river and up at a dazzling Milky Way.
This phenomenon is known as the Dark Rift, and is also termed the Great Rift, Dark Side, and Dark River. This darkened "lane," or void, as it appears to the eye and camera, is created by "a series of overlapping, non-luminous, molecular dust clouds ... " [Source: Wikepedia - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Rift_(astronomy)]
Don Mercer is an author and freelance fine art photographer. Research for one book took him to the middle of Cambodia in 1999, as he was the first from among his wartime unit to return to that country. During the War in Southeast Asia - known to most as the Vietnam War, he flew over two hundred combat missions as an Air Force pilot in the Cessna O-2A. His combat assignment was as a Forward Air Controller, or FAC. The majority of his combat missions were flown in Cambodia at night. While in Southeast Asia in 1970-71, his interest in photography intensified with the purchase of his first two of numerous Nikon cameras. Black and white, as well as color, 35mm, and Super 8 movie films were used at the time. The transition to digital...
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