Which Are the Most Photogenic National Parks?

I've always liked this photo of Chesler Park in Canyonlands National Park because of the blobs of rock in the foreground, the colorful minarets in the background, the texture the clouds give the blue sky. And yet....it's not the best exposure or time of day for such a photo. Kurt Repanshek photo.

As Eric Larson's photo of sunrise at Haleakala National Park in Hawaii clearly shows, there are some incredible vistas across the national park system. From the rain forests of Olympic National Park and the subtropics of Everglades National Park to the gun-barrel-gray peaks of Glacier, there are countless photographic opportunities across the park system.

And that's not to overlook all the architectural and cultural photo opportunities that exist across the system, such as the old homesteads in Great Smoky Mountains National Park and old Fort Jefferson at Dry Tortugas National Park, or the underwater possibilities found at Biscayne National Park.

I know I've burned a lot of film and filled a lot of flash cards at Yellowstone, Arches, Glacier, Olympic, Acadia and other parks hoping to capture that dynamic, perfectly constructed and perfectly exposed photo. More often than not I've failed. But that hasn't kept me from focusing my camera on park landscapes.

I've found it relatively easy to capture mountain goats atop Logan Pass in Glacier with a background of steely peaks and cobalt skies, and to come away with a decent photograph of the rock architecture in Arches. And yet, the emerald Hoh Rain Forest in Olympic continues to challenge me.

Which parks do you find the most intriguing, and challenging, photographically? Where have you succeeded to get that perfect photograph, and where do you return time after time in an effort to get another?