Light bouncing around

I like this very well, Walt. The diagonal composition as well as the straight up perspective provides a bit of a different look here. Although I find myself trying to rotate things in the other direction. But that I'm sure is a bit of right hand or left hand feeling more then anything. Obviously anyone mounting a print could turn as preferred. The shadows are deep, but there is enough exposure on the many ledges bouncing the light around to see things and get a decent feel for depth overall.

Walt, my feeling is that there is too much dark space and the lit ULC seems to grab some attention from the center. To keep the diagonal, maybe try hefty 20% crops from the top and right sides?

Wow, this looks great. I like the clarity and sharpness. The light/dark contrast works great for me.
Belongs to the top tier slot canyon shots, imo.

This works pretty well for me and I think the darker areas are just fine, though I'd be curious to see a version with them lightened a bit for comparison. Speaking of comparisons, your rendition of the colors is appears very natural and is far superior to the hopelessly over-the-top melange of red and blue neon featured in this month's Outdoor Photographer magazine cover shot of Antelope.

Walt, I love the composition with all the different layers and the diagonal lines, it feels very dynamic to me. I like how the darker areas work with the bright areas. Probably just a personal preference, but the image seems top-heavy to me and I would rotate it 180 degrees, fully knowing there is no real 'correct' orientation here. The colors are very saturated, most probably right on the edge, but the bright red color is over the top to me, way too much magenta for even this locale. I'd say work on that a little and you've got a real winner!

I too like the strong horizontal composition as well as the bimodal tonal range which makes it very dramatic. Good sharpness in all the edges.

To Paul's comment about handedness, I tried a horizontal flip and I do think that "flows" better; It actually reminds me a lot of molten lava flowing down hill.

The hues in this are remarkable; intense reds, yellow, and violet.

Having seeing 1,367,897, I cannot now wait to see 1,367,898 !

Thanks for all the great comments and suggestions. I'll give them all a try!

The contrast is very strong, but you've handled it nicely with subtle details in the lower right and interesting effects with the bright ridges above. It's funny, but I think this is a stronger image when flipped vertically. (How nice to be working from my laptop. ) This looks great.

The light from below feels a little odd, but only because I am use to seeing from above. Almost looks like a lava tunnel. Great sharpness and tones. The 2 dark corns look a bot too symmetrical for me, so maybe a crop off the right (less interesting of the 2 might be an improvement Lovely shot.

Love the strong diagonal and the wonderful use of shadow and contrast and line, not to mention those incredible colors. This is fantastic in my opinion.

Depends on who you want it to "work" for? The public would love this. Nice shot!

Nice job handling the wide range of tones Walt, which IMO makes the image of a familiar place unique. Creates a different mood by giving that much real estate in the frame to the very dark tone.