This 27 mile winding dirt road begins near the Rhyolite ghost town, and winds into the National Park through the Grapevine Mountains. This remarkable view is from its windswept crest at Red Pass. It later drops down into a rock-lined gorge. I made this image in the spirit of the romantic Hudson River School paintings of the late 19th century. Using a camera with a 28mm wideangle lens, I anchored these mountains on a layer of red earth. Our road twists and turns below us across the middle of the anchor layer, turning away from us and then vanishing into the center of the image where the second layer begins – a series of rolling mountains that recede in scale as they move from right to left. The final layer is a rich cloudscape extending across the entire image. The colors in this image are as rich and varied as any I have ever made.