Watercolour Painting - Utah landscape

This was an image I photographed a few years ago during a trip to Page Arizona. Page is located very close to the Utah border, and this location was just across the Colorado river. I was on a photographic workshop with Alain Briot, and his workshops never fail to please. This was an amazing location to photograph, and the terrain is very much as you can see in the painting. Unfortunately there is no human figure in the image I took, so the scale is hard to evaluate, but the boulders in the centre of the image are about 6  to 10 feet in diameter. The hoodoo to the right is at least 15 feet high.
I am becoming more familiar with the water colour medium, and I do not have to mentally focus on how to do so as much as I did a year ago. It becomes more natural and instinctive as I spend more time painting. I did use strong colours on this painting, but the actual colour scheme of the real thing is also very bright and colourful.
With watercolour painting it is important to leave some of the white of the paper to create that sparkle that a good watercolour painting should have. I think I could have left more white than I did, but once the paint is down, you can't go back. However, I am relatively pleased  with the effort.