The Blyde River Canyon, in the north-east of South Africa, ranks among the largest vegetated canyons on the planet. The image is taken from the rim of the escarpment: below, the river widens into a calm stretch of water, slipped between sandstone domes with wooded flanks. The afternoon light sculpts the relief \u2014 slopes lit in tender green, russet walls left in shadow, cliffs fading into a bluish haze in the distance, as far as the plain that closes the horizon. Above, a deep sky carries a fleet of cumulus whose shadows travel across the ridges. Nothing here is arid: everything is covered, alive, saturated with vegetation, and that is what makes the place singular among the great canyons. A photograph of patience and of weather, in which depth is built plane by plane, from the rock of the foreground to the last cliff drowned in light.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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