I hadn't visited Garden of the Gods before about 2 weeks ago, and while I had certainly seen images from there before, I remembered the photos being of very similar scenes over and over (wider-angle shots). While I didn't go out of my way to study photos (in order to preserve the experience as fresh), I was pretty sure I hadn't seen this exact image before. Shot at 233 mm, I tried to select a small scene for which the intense backlight would actually work. I found this lone ponderosa pine on a sandstone rock fin, mountains looming behind. - Garden of the Gods, Colorado, USA #Colorado #GardenoftheGods #backlight #Americanwest #mountains #rock #tree #hiking #winter #nature #landscape #scenicsnature #outdoors #Fujifilm #FujifilmXT5
