The eastern approach Zion Canyon is a national park unto itself, route 9 passes through otherworldly landscapes.
ISO 250 1/1000 sec at f/2.8
Captured with a Kodak DCS Pro SLE/c dslr and a Canon lens EF 200 mm 1:2.8 L II stabilized with the Manfrotto Studio Tripod model 475 and the 468 Hydrostatic ball head. This series explores the possibility of the iconis “Lone Pine.” Here the tortured existence of this organism is rendered plain.
Michael Stephen Wills Photography 
Extraordinary how life clings on.
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…..made more tenuous by climate change.
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simply miraculous!
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hard to believe it is real
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Are you sure it’s tortured? Maybe it’s self-satisfied, having accepted a bet from the other pines that it couldn’t grow in that spot — and won!
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a tree growing anywhere, there, is at long odds. It appears tortured — same could be said for a human, still tortured and recovered, possibly.
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Amazing.
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we are grateful for that experience
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Great picture. I love these trees that grow out of seemingly impossible places. Maggie
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We see them around here all the time. Tough nuts
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Life is the strongest and the most beautiful
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The west is having a hard go of it, with climate change.
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