Guano Point, Grand Canyon West – Arizona

We visited two locations in Grand Canyon West; the first stop was Guano Point, where I shot yesterday’s landscape. In the 1930s, guano, bat droppings, were discovered on the other side of the canyon. High in nitrogen, guano was an excellent fertilizer.

U.S. Guano Corporation created a tramway to extract the guano from the cave. This operation continued until 1960, when it became unprofitable. However, even now, the headhouse for the tram remains, as you can see here.

To make this photograph, I temporarily switched from the Fujifilm 35-70mm to the TTArtisans 11mm Fisheye. Like I did at Hoover Dam, I cropped out the circular vignette. In this framing, the fisheye effect is barely visible, showing up as only a gentle curve along the horizon. However, the horizontal wooden pole on the right side shows a considerable bend.

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