The plains of Utah can stretch as far as the eye can see, with only occasional mesas to break the monotony. These appeared on the horizon as we left Goblin Valley State Park and headed towards the Green River Valley. It is the cloud that made this scenic vista worth photographing. The mesas add a sense of scale incongruity and tell us how big this landscape really is. The large cloud, an inverted triangle, seems to hang over these mesas as if it was a message from a higher authority. I anchored the image with masses of foreground sage, and placed my horizon well below the center of the image to strengthen the sky. I darkened the sky and intensified the color in Photoshop later, providing greater contrast for the mysterious cloud that hangs over the scene. What makes this image so unusual is the shadow of the cloud – it falls on the smaller front mesa, yet the large mesa remains in full sun. That shadow provides a mysterious target for that mysterious cloud. A third cloud – a long narrow band – hovers just over the long mesa and helps draw the eye to the point where the two clouds and two mesas converge.