The Trip

This page contains photographic advice, general commentary and snapshots taken during an 8-day whitewater rafting trip down the Colorado River in May of 2000. It is an accompaniment to afeature portfolioof photographs taken during that trip.
Getting Psyched
As the trip drew closer I became more and more concerned about what to bring. Camping and river gear was straightforward. Some the trip organizers supplied, while the rest I either already owned or was purchased from a local outfitter. What caused me considerable head-scratching though was what photographic equipment to pack.
The constraints where several. A river rafting trip is extremely wet and therefore all camera gear had to fit in a hard-sided waterproof case. Also, we'd be spending a lot of time hiking within the canyons and so a backpack type camera case was a must. Mutually contradictory requirements. 
Though a process of elimination, and given the space constraints on the raft for camera gear as well as our dry bags ...