Stock Shot Project

Everywhere in the park pine trees integrated with the harsh landscape, many of them clinging tenuously to life on the cliffs.

The roots of this lone pine made a stark silhouette at dawn as they clung precariously to the edge of the cliff.  To emphasize the shape of the roots I chose a ground-level angle and put them against the lighter part of the sky.

Pines crowded between the canyon walls along the Navaho Trail rise towards the light.

I liked the starkness of this scene of craggy trees and their shadows integrating with the equally rough textured background.

A 200mm focal length captured this distant landscape and compressed the scene into a tableau.

This pine  atop a high cliff over-looking the canyon, and the morning clouds echoed the shape of the rocky terrain. Shot with a Sigma 12-24mm zoom set to a 12mm focal length on a Nikon D800.