Pinnacles in Badlands, South Dakota, captured at sunrise. I think this will be an image I come back to many times for editing because of its subtleties and complexities. New techniques and software keep providing new opportunities to get the best out of the same file, and that's one thing I love about digital photography. So many people think photography ends at capture, that what you get is what you have to stay with. For me, as it was for Ansel Adams, the joy of photography is discovering better ways to transform the same negative, in this case digital, into something even more stunning than it was before. The negative is only an idea to which we apply instructions to achieve the ultimate vision. For now, this is a better representation of what I saw than the original image I had posted, with deeper draws of shadows accentuated by softer brushes of light over a more textured geology.

I suggest a canvas gallery wrap for this or a commercial license for the purposes of promoting the Badlands.