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When I travel on the east cost of the US I am amazed how little natural landscape there is.  When you drive down many the highways you can go miles and see nothing but a wall of trees.  Easterners who visit the western deserts often complain about nothing to see.  But in the desert you can see for twenty miles in every direction and there is lots of landscape.  I once met a geologist from New England who had come to Arizona to gather specimens.  I asked him why he traveled so far to do his studies.  His comment was “Back home we can’t see the rocks for the trees”. 

Here we can see the rocks, and what rocks we have.   The photographer has captured one of those remarkable formations.  You will notice in the arch to the left there are a number of people at the rim.  These add scale to nature’s structure and the repeating patterns of sky create depth to the scene.  Even thou it is near mid day sun the colors are captured in the shadows and reflected light.

I would like the photographer to consider a couple of modifications.  The sky cold be darkened to give a little more drama and the partial white clods lack detail so they could possibly be removed with cloning.  Perhaps the image could be cropped in tighter to eliminate the trees and some of the rocks that are in full sun light.

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