Large or small?

Great light on this Margaret. I could almost see further exploring this photograph with some cropping. And I'm guessing this is a pretty large area of rock if you were rafting and the lens that you took it with.

Pretty amazing shot. Some really wonderful light, texture, shapes and color. Pretty hard to figure if it is a small section or larger area. I guess with a D200 crop factor and a 120mm lens it could be a smaller area, but it feels like a larger area to me so will go along with Nicolaus on that. Either way it looks nice.

Nick Bristol
Lone Rock, WI

Wonderful textures, and I love the sheen on the rock. The ordinarily harsh lighting really helps bring out the textures of the surface. I could see cropping the left a little, so that the curve is the left most point of interest (instead of that vertical crack). Having seen these kinds of canyon walls, I know this is a pretty darn big rock

The Crop. I cropped out the left cracks as suggested in some comments. To keep the same proportion, the crop removed some of the texture at the top left. I kinda like the crop, but am not sure...
And yes, it is a closeup of a huge canyon wall!

I would suggest cropping off the vertical crack along the left edge (almost over the the curved fracture). Not only does it remove a distraction, it allows for the bright orange rock to be spread more evenly in the frame. Then, the whole presentation is much more presentation is much more clear.

Oops, I just noticed the re-post with the crop in place. I don't know if it was necessary to keep the same dimensions. I don't mind losing some of the black shadows from along the top, but I did enjoy the upper right corner. Anyway, the updated version is very nice.

This is super - an intriguing and very effective image - think I agree with Kent about cropping a bit off the side but not much if at all off the top - aside from anything, you almost have 2 little eyes towards the top left with the large mouth below - shame to lose those! ;-) In fact, possibly you could lose a little off both sides? Would have to try it out to be sure but that might also work...

Margaret - what a fantastic image. "Well seen and captured," as the saying goes around here! Wonderful texture, incredible drama in light and shadow, great colours, excellent comp and techs. I think I like losing the feature on the left as you have done in the repost but also join the others in suggesting leaving more of the top of the wall as in the original.

Wonderful.

Thanks for the great comments. As often as I've looked at this photo, I've never noticed the eyes and smile that Lizzie did. I like that idea. Here is a crop taking the cracks off the left and leaving all of the top. It definitely looks more charming! Smile!

Very well seen, the crop works even better. A really effective study in patterns.