Grand Canyon part 2

This is the part 2 of Grand Canyon shots. Hope the photos won't bore you because what you going see is just another batu (rock) loh....

one of the sunrise shot

View from Yaki point. if i remember correctly.

Layer cake?. nop, layer rock 

One of the valley, you can see Colorado river

Try to use the tree as framing of the shot

i think you can imagine how tick is the snow and how cold is this place

i like the sky.....

nothing to say. just enjoy the photo

Visitor Center, hardly find a walk path to there....

Colorado river view, can't see? find the tiny line at center

boring izzit? scroll down then

here are my foot step

if fall down sure nothing left

clearer Colorado river view, thanks to 70-200mm f4 L lens

TQ for scrolling down, this is a bonus shot to let you see handsome man

Grand Canyon part 1

Hallo guys, it was sometimes i didn't update this blog, sorry ya. Last year Dec i was really busy with work + family stuff. Coming to this year i had a chance travel to US to visit my wife which has a project running Oregon state. Sounds nice right? yeah it was except the bill of the air ticket and you have to spend everything in USD :-(. . Me and my wife took a week off after i arrive Oregon for 2 days and we bought ourself an air ticket Las Vegas or Sin City. After that we rent a car from Vegas and drive to Grand Canyon. It was 4 hours boring drive due to Nevada & Arizona sunset is quite early (about 6pm and the sky will dark). When we arrive at 10pm and we was surprise to see everywhere is cover with snow. oh man.... Grand Canyon is desert and not suppose to be hot one meh? unfortunately this place will also have winter and just most of the time tourist choose to visit this here during summer which is super hot and hence express a wrong message to us. So how cold is it? not very cold lah, -6 degree C to 6 degree C plus windy. Still okay... (actually F'ing freezing). Alright, cut the blar blar and straight to photo viewing. i split in to part 1 and part 2 because i have tons of photo i would like to share. Hope won't make you sian (boring) lah.. Enjoy.

Sunrise 1 at Grand Canyon

Stunning sky, will with cloud

Sunrise 2

Sunrise 2

Korean uncle at another side taking sunrise photo. This photo was captured using 70-200 f/4L

The Sun is coming but the other side is cover with cloud.

The rock actually in layer and most importantly snow is everywhere.

A strange big rock

Panorama view, combination 3 photos

One is the valley in Grand Canyon

Eiffel Tower

Eiffel Tower

Eiffel Tower, it is a global symbol of Paris and it is one of the greatest monument in the world. Every year it attracted a lot of tourist visit this romantic place and bring France a lot of $$$$$. My wife like this tower very much and drive me to write this post. Both of us do have plan to visit Paris one day to enjoy this remarkable scenery. So in this post, i am going to introduce a little bit about Eiffel Tower based on my reading & understanding, hopefully everybody will know more about Eiffel tower.

Alexandre Gustave Eiffel

Eiffel Tower was built in 1887 and finished at 1889, located on Champ de Mars in Paris. I don't know how to pronounce Champ de Mars in France, if you know, teach me. :). The tower was designed by a guy name Gustave Eiffel that you can see from right. Mmmm, right now we know how the tower name came from.  The tower is 1063 ft tall, about 81-storey height. According to Wikipedia, it was the tallest man made building until Chrysler Building in New York City completed built in 1930. The tower become the symbol/icon for both Paris and France. It also known as one of the most romantic place in the world for lovers.

Night view in blue

The whole tower weighs 10,00 tonnes and consists 7,300 tonnes of metal. Wah lou, 1ton = 1000kg leh, 7,300 tonnes meaning it use a lot of metal. I am sure our metal theft in Malaysia sure like Eiffel tower more than us. For maintenance wise, it is not easy too, every 7 years Paris need to apply 50 tonnes of brownish-grey/dark brown paint to protect it from rust. Pity to the paint worker...... i think my wife sure very happy if one day Paris decide to paint the tower into pink..... OMG...

Night view in yellow

If you plan to walk from ground to top, you will need to walk 1665 steps. But don't worry, the walkable steps by visitors only 704. Sorry, i will still take the lifts by paying some extra money. Another interesting fact is the tower height can varies up to 15cm due to thermal expansion from the metal. There is a restaurant at the tower and i heard it is very expensive.Ok lah, that's all what i want to write about Eiffel tower, thanks for reading. All the images copied from from internet.

Another night view