Mike Chowla
Utah Road Trip Feb 2010:

Zion National Park

With its soaring rock formations, Zion is an impressive sight to behold. I struggled with the lighting while photographing. The canyon is narrow and the sunlight only illuminates any given section for a small part of the day. Zion is known to be photographers paradise but its challenging conditions also test ones skills.

These formations are just outside the southern gate.
I took this shot from behind the Comfort Inn in Kenab. It always surpises me how there are so many beautiful places in the western US that views like this can have no one looking at them.