Shutterbug Photo of the Day

Today’s Shutterbug Photo of the Day is a gorgeous canyon shot by Laura Zirino. Zirino is now in the running to win a $1,000 Canon Pixma Pro-1 photo printer or a $500 Gift Certificate from LensRentals.com in our April Photo of the Month contest. Details on how to enter here.

Zirino’s image is of the sunrise at Shafer Overlook in Canyonlands National Park in Utah.

“The forecast the night before was for clear skies so I got a late start, not expecting much,” she writes about the shot. “As I drove into Canyonlands, the dawn started to light up and I saw a LOT of high clouds. I kicked myself for being so unprepared and drove to the first overlook, which I'd never been to before. I stood at the edge of this rock taking shot after shot, but what I really wanted was to convey what it felt like to stand over this vastness. I decided to include the foreground rock that I was standing on because it gave the feeling that you could just step off and fly across the canyon.”

Her settings were f/10, .3 sec, 16mm, ISO 100.

See a larger version of the photo in the Shutterbug Photo of the Day gallery here.

If you want to enter Shutterbug Photo of the Day, post an image in the Shutterbug Photo of the Day Gallery and include your real name and some background on the image (how and where it was shot; the story behind the image; gear and settings used etc.) in the description field to qualify.

We will select one Shutterbug Photo of the Day image every month to run as a full-page feature in the magazine.