Mount Whitney, at the upper center of this image, is over 14,000 feet tall. It is the highest mountain in the US, except for Alaska’s Mount McKinley. By using the 28mm wideangle lens, I make it incongruously small, far smaller than the colorful mass of sage at my feet. My concept is a simple one: the sage and the mountain are both the work of nature, and in the natural world, the highest mountain is really no more important than a single bush of sage. By using the wideangle lens in a vertical format, I can create this incongruous difference in scale.