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On our last day at Zion, I promised my friends a good view at sunrise and convinced them to hike the Canyon overlook point trail before we started our long drive back home. And it was well worth it, just before we reached the end point of the hike we saw two elusive big horns from about 15 feet away. They casually wandered near us before quickly disappearing. I quickly tried to change the lens on my camera to get a good shot but by the time I was ready they disappeared. Kind of stressing the importance of a second body for a landscape photographer, hopefully someday soon.
This is a panorama shot I made at the Zion Canyon overlook. Sunlight was pretty strong from the east and I had a hard time balancing the light for this shot, had to fish out my 0.9 Lee ND grad filter which seldom comes out of my bag. Also each shot had to be very carefully recomposed with the filter so as not further darken, the areas in shade. I also used a longer focal length to better convey the enormity of this view. Hope you all like this image, I had a lot of fun making it.