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Phil Douglis | all galleries >> Galleries >> Gallery Sixty Three: Dimensions of grandeur – larger than life travel imagery > Clearing storm, Monument Valley, Arizona, 2009
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14-NOV-2009

Clearing storm, Monument Valley, Arizona, 2009

Parts of this image lie in shadow, while others gleam in the sun. A sky laden with threats is breaking up, scattering the low hanging clouds that float above the scene. I layer the scene with first a green and then a brown desert foreground. A tiny, twisting road lies within that desert, carrying an even smaller white truck that tells us just how vast this scene really is. Three layers of rock formations comprise the middleground here, while a dark blue/gray sky provides the backdrop. Grandeur depends largely on scale relationships, and this image offers an array of them.

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Phil Douglis25-Nov-2009 19:35
What a wonderful metaphor for a clearing storm, Tim. The dirt road that runs through Monument Valley with its zigs and zags does indeed suggest a thunderbolt slashing across the desert landscape.
Tim May25-Nov-2009 19:18
The road almost seems as if it were a lightening bolt frozen in time.
Phil Douglis24-Nov-2009 02:49
We never had to wait out the storm, Carol -- it was clearing as we arrived. The light was magnificent, at least for awhile. As sunset neared, more dark clouds rolled in and sealed it up.
Carol E Sandgren24-Nov-2009 01:35
Nothing like a clearing storm to provide such luscious light, turning your image into a gloriously beautifully lit scene! Makes it worth waiting out the storm.
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