The "good morning light" had vanished by the time the sun broke through the overcast on this day. It was nearly noon in the Galapagos when I made this photograph, and the harsh noon light was coming from straight overhead. Although a lot of detail was lost in the shadows, I still made this picture, largely because of the way color organizes it. A band of yellow grass and green bush brings the eye down from the upper right hand corner, flowing diagonally down into the heart of this image. The focal point of this landscape photograph is a huge Giant Prickly Pear Tree at center. Craggy rocks frame the tree on all four sides and form a base that acts as foundation for the entire image. When I viewed this photograph that evening on my computer, I saw that I could use Lightroom's "developing mode" to open up the very dark shadows that the "bad light" had smeared over these rocks, restoring the texture and detail in them that I earlier saw with my own eyes. The result is a striking landscape, revealing the rough yet beautiful terrain created by nature, a volcano, and a lot of time.