Very good photo. I want to see more on the right hand side, where a hint of another butte shows up. Did you shoot a wider or pano by any chance?
I do in fact have a Pano - very high dynamic range and a pain in the ass to process. I'm sure I'll get around to it one of these days.
Even this shot was processed in black and white to increase the shadows depth, then lightened and masked into the main photograph to increase the dynamic range of the highlights. The image itself is very flat without taking these processing steps - this is typical for desert scenes I find. Very useful for twilight shots. This is just after sunrise - but the sun was trying to push through the cloud cover acting as a soft box for me.
I agree with you - Thank you for pointing this out - the hill on the right draws my eye and makes me wish there was more to see there. I should crop it out - there is more there but the foreground comes into the frame as I push right.
