Meteor Crater - Arizona
I was traveling through Arizona a few days ago – headed home after visiting my son and his wife in Phoenix. I took a little detour, just about 6 miles off I-40, near the eastern border of Arizona to visit the famous Meteor Crater.
It is truly impressive, especially when you consider it was caused by a direct hit from a relatively small meteor. The crater is about 550 feet deep and 4,000 feet across and was caused by a meteor not much bigger than a large house – only about 150 feet across. It’s scary to even contemplate what would happen if a fairly large meteor hit the Earth – I’m afraid it would be a catastrophic event! I’ll keep my fingers crossed.
One thing that shows the size of the crater is when you consider that I was standing on the edge, using a 14mm lens, and I still couldn’t get the whole thing into the photo!
For this HDR image, I started with 7 bracketed images and used Photomatix Pro to combine them.
Taken with a Nikon D700, using the Nikkor 14-24mm f/2.8 lens.
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