These massive sandstone buttes were named after the two ironclad battleships that fought each other to a standoff during the American Civil War. The buttes look like the prows of those ships, and when the skies are filled with leaden clouds resembling cannon fire, the battle seems to be joined. I under exposed this image to deepen the color of both clouds and ships, bringing the ships to battle, even if in the imagination. Opposites? Indeed.