Canyon Reverie

I had camped overnight in Horse Thief Canyon in the Island in the Sky district of the Canyonlands in Utah. I heard a raven call from a nearby grove of cottonwood trees, his insistent "crock, crock" echoing off the red sandstone walls. The sun had just risen above the canyon walls, its first light painting the canyon’s sculpted sandstone formations. I pushed the plunger on my cable release and my Hasselblad recorded the moment.