The thousand foot high cliffs of Canyon de Chelly rise straight up from the canyon floor, overshadowing everything down below, including the ancient ruins known as The White House. The magic of a “cliff house” comes from its setting in a niche carved into the walls of a vast canyon. To give a sense of he sheer scale of this house’s setting, I used a 28mm wideangle lens here, embracing the old ruins at the site’s base for the sake of comparison. I fill in the top with leaves and branches. Their downward thrusts echo the downward thrust of the directional flow on the rock itself. By using a true wideangle format, I can get close enough to express the detail on both buildings and rocks, yet still express the nature of the Canyon itself – vast in scale, brilliant in color.