ship rock

I posted a different picture of Ship Rock and it's lava dyke a few years ago. In that picture I placed the dyke in the foreground and used it like a leading line. It was an OK picture but it visually diminished the rock. Here the rock is the main event. Ship Rock is an example of an "inselberg"...

This is on Navajo land in northwest New Mexico. Ship Rock is sacred to the Navajo. And no wonder. It is majestic! (The wide angle lens of my Sigma DP1 Merrill --28mm equivalent--doesn't really do it justice in this photo.) It projects upward some 1600 feet from the desert floor. The dyke is...