Abajo Mountains, Sunset Storm

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As the sun sets a large thunderstorm approaches the Abajo Mountains, forty-five miles away. It has already extinguished most light in the surrounding red rock canyons and fierce winds buffet the entire area, making photography quite difficult. Numerous attempts to get a sharp and high quality capture of this rapidly changing scene were made, using a shutter speed of a half second with an aperture setting of F/10 at ISO 100. The effort paid off, yielding the image above. The vast expanse of sky and canyons make the massive 11,360 foot (3,463 m) high mountains seem diminutive.