• Annie Besant.

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While driving up to Petrified Forest National Park, I had this impression of a desolate desert landscape with many petrified tree remnants distributed here and there. But what greeted us was a park with a multitude of different landscapes and rock formations. I believe only about 10 percent of all my images at the park had any petrified wood in them. We drove the park road in the north to south direction, and the landscape started with a lot of interesting rock formations and brightly red-colored soil, but as we got more south, the landscape turned flat, and the overlooks started getting higher.

Finally, I took this image closer to the park's southern border at a viewpoint near the agate Bridge. By the time we reached this viewpoint, the sun had gone down a bit, so we had the beautiful golden light characteristic of the American West's deserts. The vastness of the land sprawling in front of me attracted me to this image. Make you feel a bit small.