Spider Rock, home of Spider Grandmother/Woman, creator of the world to Puebloan peoples. In White-folk traditions, this is a 750-foot sandstone double-spire.
The light in the desert. Geeze. You venture out early to catch oblique lighting. You wait through the heat of the day when the more direct light flattens the viewscape. Then, in late day, the light gives its gift to photographers and painters once again.