Moving on to Bryce Canyon, this is one of the bristle cone pines there. I thought it would be a good idea to use a polarizer to keep the brightness of the sky in check, but in hindsight, I think it made the sky look a bit off and I would have been better off just dialing down the exposure to make sure that the histogram didn’t shown any white clipping.
Picture taken with Canon 60D, EF-S 17-85mm lens @ 17mm, 1/80 sec shutter, f/8.0, ISO 100