Persistent Life, Treasure Falls

I have hiked past this spot several times on my way to someplace else, always thinking that I would like to stop and make a photograph of this tree clinging to life over this perilous perch. But I had never stopped to figure the composition out. Last year, in late fall, I did stop. What made the image tricky to get is that it needed a fairly long lens to frame it like I wanted to, more throw that any of my Large Format lenses have, so I relegated it to dreams and wishes. The next thing was that the canyon here is fairly dark so an exposure of several seconds was indicated, even at a higher ASA than I like to use, and then the only view point where this is even possible is on a bridge over the river, so any footsteps on the bridge would conspire to degrade image sharpness, and the breeze generated by the constantly moving water meant that the needles on the pine tree would be moving quite a bit of the time. I did several images, and in one of them the pine needles on the tree are sharp with almost no movement. I used a Canon 6D camera with a Canon 70-200L lens. All conversion was done using Photoshop only. No apps were injured in the creation of this image.