Leland Davis is the author and photographer, I believe.
He appears to be the author of a river guidebook to N Carolina.

Socemdog wrote:
Thanks, Bill for the great link. A fabulous photo/video essay! Who was the
photog? Also, thanks for the diversion . . .
Robin

Here are some excellent pictures and commentary (not mine,
9 pages total) from a Grand Canyon trip last month:

http://nccreeks.com/grand/

Since this newsgroup is mostly echo-noise between two guys
now, I doubt this announcement will overburden their server.