Spectacular overlook

This is one of the beautiful overlooks of the Green River in Canyonlands National Park near Moab, Utah. I took this at sunrise with daylight white balance. Had I used auto white balance as so many photographers do, the golden color of light on the distant mountains would have been compromised. It would have been ‘corrected’ to white light, and the picture wouldn’t nearly be as good. Sure, color can be managed in post-processing, but I like to see my images look good on the LCD screen at the time I'm taking them. At first I tried a 14mm wide angle lens, but it was too wide. It pushed the buttes and mesas too far away. This shot was taken with a 24mm focal length, and my settings were 1/25, f/8, and 640 ISO. I focused 8 feet into the frame. The formula for deciding where to focus with a wide angle lens when the foreground is close to the camera is you divide the focal length of the lens by 3. That is the number of feet from the lens where you point of focus should be for maximum depth of field. This is virtually identical to the hyperfocal distance.