Wide Open Spaces in Fruita, Colorado

Looking at the vastness of Colorado National Monument, located near Grand Junction, Colorado, a photographer never gets bored.  The Monument, established in 1911, provides picturesque and 360 degree panoramic views.  Ambling along the many hiking trails easily provides a wide variety in which to shoot all that is quintessential Colorado.  This photograph provides not only juniper trees, but rock monuments and a far off glimpse of the Book Cliffs.  Perfectly placed grey, silver and billowy white clouds give impressions of unbounded and ever reaching scenery that is part of the true Colorado experience.