The Desert View Watchtower, built in 1930, offers a breathtaking view of the Grand Canyon. In addition to the view it offers, the tower itself is a beautiful structure, artfully designed to blend with and compliment the wild, untamed surroundings of one of America's greatest natural features.
I find it to be an interesting photo subject, so I took a number of pictures of it. This is one of the more dramatic ones:
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But later I looked more closely at my serious, dramatic photographs, and discovered an unexpected twist to my subject matter:
Ah, tourists. Gotta love 'em.
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