This is the bottom of Havasu Falls at the west end of the Grand Canyon in Arizona. This looks like a drone shot, but I captured the scene in 1987 with my medium format film camera, the Mamiya RZ 67. There was a light rain, but just 100 feet up the trail, at a slightly higher elevation, it was snowing. I remember taking this with a 250mm lens -- equivalent to a 135mm focal length in the full frame digital format. I used Fujichrome Velvia 50, which was the best film at the time for saturated color, and for landscapes the slow film speed was fine because things didn't move. The settings were unrecorded, but I'm sure I set the aperture to f//32 to make sure the tops of the trees as well as the mineral formations were both sharp. Given the light, this would have made the shutter 1/8th of a second. Fortunately, I had an overcast sky. Had the sun directly lit the scene, the contrast and mottled lighting would have ruined the shot.
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