I tend to favor sunsets at Grand Canyon in my never-ending pursuit of capturing images with impact. Sunsets afford an afternoon’s worth of watching the clouds set up, increasing the odds of being in the right place at the right time when the big show begins.
At sunrise, one is basically committed to one vantage or another when the sky brightens enough to gauge your compositional opportunities. You’ll find me somewhere along the South Rim at daybreak if I know there is an advancing or breaking storm.
Both scenarios better one’s chances of witnessing dramatic cloud play and lighting–as in the shot shown here, taken at Yaki Point twenty minutes after the rising sun first broke the horizon.