This is one of those intuitive incongruous ideas that kept getting better and better. I was trying to photograph a raven sitting on the stone wall in front of Zabriskie’s famous landmark, the Manley Beacon, when I noticed my shadow kept getting longer as I approached. I thought my shadow would create an incongruous foreground and included it in the composition. Suddenly another raven flew into the frame, and just as he did so, pbase photographer Tim May, who was shooting with me on this trip to Death Valley, walked up next to me and began shooting his own shadow and his own raven. And there it was – the incongruity of twin shadows and twin ravens, with the golden morning light on the Manley Beacon as a background. As we were shooting this picture I also noticed another incongruity – the rocky mosaic in the wall is echoed by the patchwork of colors on the Manley Beacon.