Ten minutes after making the preceding image ( http://www.pbase.com/pnd1/image/83716757 ), I made this one from almost the same spot. The rising sun now illuminates almost the entire rock formation that I had featured in that image. I used a 40mm focal length on that image. For this photograph, I am using a 28mm wideangle lens turned vertically, in order to embrace the ancient, well-worn rocks on the edge of the rim itself to add perspective to the landscape. I stress the dark chasm in the center of the image, in order to feature a small but glowing tree that seems to be hanging within it. The tree just catches the early morning sun, a spot of orange adrift in a sea of black. All of the massive formations in this image now become our context. That little tree, alive, and vulnerable, becomes the subject of this image.