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The mitten formation anchors this frame perfectly, that silhouette against sky is doing exactly what it needs to do. The dead tree in the foreground adds scale and breaks up what could've been a flat composition. These two elements together give the eye somewhere to land before moving through the rest of the frame.
Daren,
Thank you so much, your description is perfect, it was challenging to find a way to get the viewer to enter the frame.
That light on the mitten is perfect. I've shot Monument Valley twice and both times I got there too late in the day, the shadows were already long and cold. This feels like you caught it right at that golden half-hour when the red comes through warm. The dead tree anchors it without stealing the show.
Thanks Malcolm, I was there in March, I want to say late afternoon. When i took this I was thinking, shit, there is no sky, and you know how hard it is to find a foreground, so I was just trying to make lemonade.
Great image. Astounding!
Thank you