This photograph comes from a visit to Southern Utah with a couple of photographer friends some years ago. We took a week to make a loop through the southern part of the state that took in Cottonwood Canyon, the Escalante area, and a few days in the Capitol Reef neighborhood. That latter location is where I made this photograph of a juniper tree in front of a massive sandstone cliff face.
To my way of thinking, the red sandstone and the green junipers are definitive colors in this landscape, perhaps with the addition of the blue sky. I was drawn to the various diagonals and angles in this little scene. The tree grows on a small triangular rise, and its own shape forms a sort of rough triangle. Similar shapes are echoed in the patterns on the cliff face.
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