Wow! I was wondering what this would be from the title. I thought to myself, "Don't tell me she has gotten into fractals?" I like this. That is great detail on the rock and a great perspective overall. Good work.
Pat

This must be one of your very best, Jen !!!
As I cannot find the words of praise this image deserves so will just say: Thanks and congratulations !

What a 'Stunning' shot, this is Jen...you have done exreemly well in getting this!..there is so much I can say about It ..there would be no room left for other's to comment!
this will be getting a permanent resident in my 'quality' folder? B:o)B

I am speechless - absolutely amazing photograph! Woweee!

I love the lines. It reminds me of phyllo pastery. This is a keeper!!

Fantastic Colours ...Wonderful Capture...Well done Jen...! :)

Another amazing shot Jen & captured so well. How do you do it? I love the different textures of the red rock & the depth here is fantastic....shows that there is no end to this canyon. Excellent work.

Great shot...I feel a bit of the queeze on this. Nice color and clarity. Nice work.

Beautiful, Jen. Just gorgeous.

Looks like the very place where the giant put his spade in the ground and started digging!
Amazing country, what a beautiful place.
So totally different to my own surroundings, this could be on another planet.
Paul

Better than a great photo+++++

Ohhh my God!!! WOW WOW WOW.... amazing shot... look at those lovely tilted sediments....a sedimentary geologist dream! Thank you so much for capturing this...just dreamy. I love rocks^_^

Superb Jennifer as always! You have a wonderful talent! Beautiful!!! Vicky

Great photo! This demonstrates the magnificent of our great earth. There are so many stories in that uplifted sedimentary rock!

Jen I agree with almost all the comments here and its one of ur best work ever. The strange way the rocks are and the distance beauty is all in one captured wonderfully.

The thing that especially impresses me is the way you have captured this and controlled the lighting so that the inner canyon as well as the rims are evenly illuminated without concealing everything in shadow. Great work!

Amazing capture and great photography...

Beautiful long view. Great intrest from the foreground to the distance. Very harsh landscape with its only touch of green just a few feet by that distant water.

Fabulous Jen! I love the colors, dof, and clarity. A 10 from me girlfriend!

Wow, so beautifully amazing!!! Along with the detail in the lines, I love the clouds in the background.

Jen

Beautiful image. Great compostion and color.

Jackie

I love it, fantastic colours, and angle & composition work together nicely on this one. Keep up the fantastic work!

Excellent composition and light add up to a dramatic and satisfying capture. Well done, Jen!

thanks tracy, i;m glad you enjoyed "diagonals". we're thinking of heading back up there this next weekend. i'd love to go to coyote buttes but guess it's next to impossible. hiking in these places is great fun.

I can just hear the thunder rolling in .. soon the warm rocks will be cooled. And you have frozen proof that they were once dry

*must fight the urge to jump

Wow..... This is an awesome photograph. Very well done!

Snazzy shootin' Tex!! :~D

Striking imagery!!

Its called an uplift, Jen. Layers of deposited silt over ages of time then replaced by silica. You really captured the colors well in this one and the composition is near perfect. A wonderful photo - good work!

A mazing. Faved.

I remember when I first saw this one, Jen, when you first posted it in 2006, and how much I liked it, but I have no idea why I didn't comment on it. I don't see the avatar and name I was using then or now but, y'know, that's something I can fix. Understanding that the technology has advanced since then--I was using a 5mp P&S then and a 24mp DSLR now--I'm amazed at how good it still looks, how well it holds up even against today's cameras and software. I've seen a number of photos of Horseshoe Bend, morning, daytime, evening, even one during a lightning storm, but all of them are the expected head-on view with this oxbow of the Green River symmetrically placed in the frame. We do get a good sense of the geology and landforms here but this one of yours, offset to one side, shows how the geology has succumbed to the forces below, the same ones that create mountains. It reminds me of the "Galileo Was Right" episode of the HBO miniseries, "From the Earth to the Moon", in which scientist astronaut Harrison "Jack" Schmitt, a geologist, persuades his Pasadena mentor, professor Lee Silver, to train the Apollo astronauts in selecting appropriate rock samples to collect through field experience, rather than the boring classroom lectures NASA has been using. Silver takes the four Apollo 15 prime and backup landing crew members to the southwestern desert, the Oracopia Mountains of California, 600 miles southwest of this oxbow but with "uplift" geology (it's in the middle of the movie clip) very much like what you've presented here. I love variety and that's what you've given us.

Happy Trails

-Nik