"...for he who waits"

Spider Rock is a massive sandstone spire that rises 750 feet from the canyon floor in Arizona's Canyon de Chelly. It has inspired wonder for eons.

This is the first time I've published at shot of Spider Rock and it also took an eon. I took this photo seven years ago but although Spider Rock was magnificent, I really didn't care for my images. They just didn't convey the drama and inspiring size of the real thing.

Yesterday, I took another pass at processing the shot (also known as 'playing around with photoshop'). When I tried a 'tilt-shift' perspective, well, everything just seemed to fall into place.

Funny, after all that time I spent when taking the photo to make sure everything was tack sharp from foreground to background...I ended up intentionally blurring much of the image.

I know this breaks a lot of the rules of a 'traditional' landscape shot, but I like it. Hope you do too.

Jeff

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