Zion National Park September 2009

This image was created by stitching three vertical images together. I'm excited by the wider angle of view I'm able to cover, as well as a larger file to use for printing. I liked this image so much I decided to use it as my home page hero image. Perhaps what I like best about this image is, it's the best of several attempts at photographing this Zion icon. I think I've hiked "the subway" a dozen times now, and on about half of those occasions I've photographed Archangel Cascades. It took me forever to figure out I needed to use a polarizer to bring out the rich red color of the rock through wet reflections.