Horseshoe Bend only 2 miles from Page, Arizona rivals its more famous brother, Dead Horse Point in Canyonlands, Utah. Actually, except for the 3/4 mile walk from the parking lot, it is more accessible. To my memory, Horseshoe Bend is more symmetrical and certainly every bit as colorful. 
Horseshoe Bend
There is one problem with Horseshoe Bend, you are very, very close—right on top of it, thus requiring a minimum of a 24 mm wide-angle lens, a 20 mm would be even better.
Striated Rock on the lip of the canyon
Overall of the Horseshoe Bend area
The most striking plant here is the banana yucca, Yucca baccata. Native Americans used all Yucca species leaf fibers to make sandals, rope, baskets and cloth. Eating the raw fruits is like chewing on artichoke leaves - bland flavor and coarse texture. At Tonto Monument visitor’s center were displayed 800 year-old 1/2 inch balls of fiber that were found by the hundreds around the ruins. They were the remains of mouthfuls of raw or roasted fruits which had been chewed, nutrients extracted and the roughage spat out.
The bright Desert dandelion, Malacothrix glabrata, an old acquaintance from Joshua Tree in CA, had newly opened flowers turned toward the sun in the morning.
Although it is only 4,300 ft. elevation here, there must have been some rain for annuals were everywhere: white sand Gilia, Astragalus, Plantago and Cryptantha.
Among the many other prickly plants, Phacelia crenulata was still in bloom
