PHOTO OF THE DAY May 31, 2005  

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Where Canyonlands National Park, Utah
When 1991
Photographer Bruce Dale

"Carved layers of sandstone form a labyrinthine landscape in the Needles district of Canyonlands National Park, Utah. Anasazi Indians, the Ancient Ones, once lived and hunted here."

—Text from the National Geographic book America's Majestic Canyons, 1979

(Photograph shot on assignment for, but not published in, "John Wesley Powell: Vision for the West," April 1994, National Geographic magazine)


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