Returning to the Alabama Hills, just outside Lone Pine, California, for the second time in for months, I had a chance to work on a different version of a landscape I had photographed on my earlier visit. Click on the link at the bottom to see it. In that vertical version, I drew on the contrasts of color ranging from the brown rocks of the Alabama Hills to the golden pink dawn on the peaks of the Sierras. In my new version, I use a horizontal format to frame just the lower reaches of the mountains, the valley at their base, and the boulders of the Alabama Hills in the foreground. The first light of dawn is now seen in the valley, rather than on the mountain peaks. I place more stress on the field of boulders, which fill the foreground, awaiting the light. This version is no better or worse than the first – it is simply a different way of expressing the same idea on the same subject.