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A setting looking to the north while taking in views across the northern New Mexico high desert with a distant view to the Shiprock formation. This is at a parking area pullout along Indian Service Rte 13.

While at a roadside pullout along Indian Service Rte 5 with a view looking to the north-northwest across the northern New Mexico high desert setting. Off in the distance is the volcanic pipe, or diatreme, of Ford Butte. Given the mostly overcast skies that afternoon, I decided to zoom in and focus on the butte itself. I pulled back a little on the focal length to include some of the nearby foreground to add an interest to the image while including some skies to use as a backdrop. The rest was metering to best bring out the colors present on this somewhat overcast day.

A view looking to the southwest to a distant Shiprock at Park Point Lookout in Mesa Verde National Park. Even while zooming in with the focal length, I was able to still capture some of the surrounding national park landscape to add to this setting with the image.

At a roadside pullout along U.S. Route 64 with a view looking to the southeast to the monadnock and volcanic neck formation of Shiprock. In composing the image, I wanted to center Shiprock in the image and have a balanced, leveled-on view with the horizon. While doing some post-processing work with DxO PhotoLab 7, I decided to create a panoramic feel with a wide angle view after doing some adjustments to bring out the contrast, saturation and brightness I wanted for the final image.

While at a roadside pullout along Indian Service Rte 13 in northern New Mexico with at a side view mirror and the southwest (and northeast with the mirror reflection). The formation is of Shiprock. I had come across the idea for an image like this using a sideview mirror quite a few years ago and have remembered to capture different images from places I’ve visited. With this one, I attempted to center Shiprock in the image and side view mirror.

The idea for this image is here on Flickr (www.flickr.com/photos/99053770@N03/28582326572/in/gallery...).

A setting looking to the northwest while taking in views across the northern New Mexico high desert with a distant view to the Shiprock formation. This is at a roadside pullout along Indian Service Rte 13. With this image, I pulled back on the focal length to include more of the surrounding landscape to add to the setting in the image captured.

While at a roadside pullout along Indian Service Rte 5 with a view looking to the north-northwest across the northern New Mexico high desert setting. Ford Butte is the formation off in the distance.

While at the Park Point Overlook with a view looking to the southwest to a very distant formation with Shiprock in New Mexico. This is in Mesa Verde National Park in Colorado. This measured distance I determined using Google Maps is 45.92 miles, which was quite a distance in my mind! With this image, I zoomed in quite a bit with the focal length but still wanted to include some of the surrounding landscape, both in Colorado and New Mexico, to add to the setting. I was later able to use the ClearView Plus tool in DxO PhotoLab 7 to help remove some of the haze present that day.

A setting looking to the southeast while taking in views across the northern New Mexico high desert with a distant view to the Shiprock formation. This is at a roadside pullout along U.S. Route 64. With this image, I zoomed in with the focal length to include more of the surrounding landscape to add to the setting in the image captured. I also liked having a leveled-on view with the horizon in keeping a balance between the earth-tones in the lower portion of the image with the blues of the skies above.

It was as I began working on the image in post-production that I then decided to once again try out the sky replacement setting in Photoshop with this image. The blue skies with the clouds definitely seemed appropriate for this northern New Mexico setting in what I had wanted to experience in person. So the skies are from an image I captured in Sonora, TX, a few years ago with the blue skies and clouds, but all else is captured with my Nikon D850 SLR camera in New Mexico. I later worked with control points in DxO PhotoLab 7 and then made some adjustments to bring out the contrast, saturation and brightness I wanted for the final image.

This location is at a roadside pullout along U.S. Route 64 with a view looking to the southeast to Shiprock off in the distance.

Shiprock
Shapes and Sizes
Patterns and textures
Colors and contrasts
A wonderment
A marvel
Exotic
And yet from this earth
Rising into the skies above
It is a rock with wings
So never stop traveling
Don't ever stop exploring!

Another work of short poetry or prose to complement the image captured one afternoon looking along a a volcanic rock section with a view to the north and to the Shiprock rock formation off in the distance. My thought on composing this image was to use the nearby dike formation with the wall as a frame to draw a viewer into the image to Shiprock off in the distance. I closed down on the aperture, so that more of the entirety of the image would be in focus. The rest was aligning myself to create a balance between the dike rock formation with that of Shiprock in the image.

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El Capitan, also known as Agathla Peak or Agathlan, is a peak south of Monument Valley, Utah, which rises over 1500 feet (457m) above the surrounding terrain. It is 7 miles (11 km) north of Kayenta, Arizona and is visible from U.S. Route 163. The English designation Agathla is derived from the Navajo name aghaałą́ meaning 'much wool', apparently for the fur of antelope and deer accumulating on the rock. The mountain is considered sacred by the Navajo.
Unlike the sedimentary rock that makes up Monument Valley, Agathla Peak is an eroded volcanic plug consisting of volcanic breccia cut by dikes of an unusual igneous rock called minette. It is one of many such volcanic diatremes that are found in Navajo country of northeast Arizona and northwest New Mexico. Agathla Peak and Shiprock in New Mexico are the most prominent. These rocks are part of the Navajo Volcanic Field, in the southern Colorado Plateau. Ages of these minettes and associated more unusual igneous rocks cluster near 25 million years.
Additional information on the El Capitan/Agathla_Peak may be obtained at Wikipedia.
Additional information on Monument Valley may be obtained at Wikipedia.

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El Capitan, also known as Agathla Peak or Agathlan, is a peak south of Monument Valley, Utah, which rises over 1500 feet (457m) above the surrounding terrain. It is 7 miles (11 km) north of Kayenta, Arizona and is visible from U.S. Route 163. The English designation Agathla is derived from the Navajo name aghaałą́ meaning 'much wool', apparently for the fur of antelope and deer accumulating on the rock. The mountain is considered sacred by the Navajo.
Unlike the sedimentary rock that makes up Monument Valley, Agathla Peak is an eroded volcanic plug consisting of volcanic breccia cut by dikes of an unusual igneous rock called minette. It is one of many such volcanic diatremes that are found in Navajo country of northeast Arizona and northwest New Mexico. Agathla Peak and Shiprock in New Mexico are the most prominent. These rocks are part of the Navajo Volcanic Field, in the southern Colorado Plateau. Ages of these minettes and associated more unusual igneous rocks cluster near 25 million years.
Additional information on the El Capitan/Agathla Peak may be obtained at Wikipedia.
Additional information on Monument Valley may be obtained at Wikipedia.

The larger the fragments, the paler they are. Old foundation, Lamb Woods, E side Blue Hills Parkway S of Pine Tree Brook, Milton, MA 3/19/22

Volcanic breccia cut by mafic dyke by the Taillerie de Sancy