When shooting mountain landscapes, hope for broken clouds at dawn. In this case, fragmented clouds both reveal and obscure the peaks of the Grand Tetons, leaving space for the rising sun to bathe both the flanks of the mountains and the underside of the overhead clouds in fiery pink light. The result is an image of grandeur. The mountains, which are already huge, become even larger and more impressive in the imagination, once we have seen them in such amazing light. Ironically, this play of dawn light on both mountains and clouds puts the role of a famous Mormon barn and the sagebrush in the foreground into a subordinate roll. Photographers come from all over the world to shoot this barn with the mountains behind it. But by the time the pink light reaches the barn, the mountains will be in full light and the clouds drained of coloration. As it stands, the barn is very much in the picture here, but in this case, the work of man takes a back seat for the work of nature.