The wall at the base of this image is reflecting the light of a late afternoon back into the darkness of Bryce Canyon, softly illuminating the colorful hoodoos in a golden glow as no direct sunlight ever could. This scene was not very close to my camera position, and there was no way for me to move any closer. Except optically. I simply zoomed out to about 250mm to make this image, bringing up detail and rendering the color accurately and completely. Any smaller focal length would have included too many hoodoos, and diluted the meaning cast on the individual rock formations by the delicate, softly reflective light.