This scene presented itself for just a few minutes, illuminated through a fleeting crack in the storm cover of a winter morning. Distances across the canyon are confusing to the eye because of the magnitude of the abyss ... these two monuments are over 6 miles distant. My ritual during the snowy first week of January was to be out early with a subject in mind to wait for good light. Varying amounts of illumination appeared each day as sunlight found weaknesses in the shifting clouds." - Rick Ferens, 2005. Negative: 23_6