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csziggy Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun May-03-09 09:15 PM
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37. That is what the official site says - and that would be a killer for me
Even if I could overcome my vertigo to try to walk out on the Skywalk! Of course, they will generously sell you pictures, I am sure. But if they are of the same mediocre quality we bought at the Grand Canyon when we last visited, they are a waste of money. Not only were the pictures themselves indifferent, the reproduction of the slides was cheap - while our slides from that trip had little color shift over the thirty years since, the commercial ones are almost solid magenta. I can scan them and adjust the color in Photoshop - but it is technical a copyright violation.

Our own amateur pictures were better and showed parts of of own experience. For instance, one morning while we were our taking pics of sun rise over the Canyon, we saw a gentleman who had climbed out on a spur of rock to get a better angle. I think my husband took a snap of him. Later that year, the National Geographic had a photo spread of the Grand Canyon. The photographer we had seen was the one for that spread!

I don't see the point in being able to walk out on a bridge like that and NOT be allowed to take pictures!
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