Inner Momo

I've visited this canyon several times over the years and have found it difficult to get an image that I wanted to work on once I get home. This year, however, I hiked it after a week photographing with three fine gentleman: Bill Pelzmann (from NPN), Momo Vuyisich (formerly from NPN), and Bob Diniro (hiker/explorer/researcher). It was a great week with Bill's geology lessons, Bob's enthusiasm, and Momo's organization. Bill and Momo tend to shoot more wide angle images than me, and we all come away with different comps in the same light.

In my previous forays into this canyon I focused on tighter comps, but as I was looking about this chamber-like space on this day, I started to ask myself, "What would Momo do?" After spending a week looking at his LCD, I knew exactly what he would do. I set my lens as wide as it would go and moved into the scene. While I generally prefer looking to find more telephoto images, I'll readily admit that it was fun discovering my "inner Momo" and finding a comp using the shorter end of my lens.

Your thoughts and recommendations regarding this image would as always be appreciated.

5D2, 28-300 @ 28mm, f/16, 1.6 sec.

Lon, in the print, the dark area has a bit more texture. I actually didn't do much to this area because I've often thought my prints lack a strong dark "foundation" and I was actually glad to have one in this image that seemed to work. However, it's easy to add a bit more light to this and I will consider doing so. Thanks for the suggestion.