A drive through Arches National Park became a sequence of red sandstone towers, arches and narrow rock corridors, with dark storm clouds gradually building over the Utah desert.
The paved road runs between high sandstone walls before the view opens across broader desert basins and isolated rock masses.
Lower walls, isolated towers and long bands of exposed sandstone repeat across the park, but the shapes change quickly from one stop to the next.
One formation reduces to an improbable piece of geometry: a rounded block resting on a much narrower pedestal, with darker cloud building behind it.
The road passes through a sequence of freestanding towers and rounded walls, then opens to a long view across the surrounding desert.
Natural openings appear at very different scales, from broad spans in a sandstone fin to a small window punched through a thicker wall.
Beyond the main rock formations, orange and pale grey bands of ground expose a wider patchwork of desert geology.
A curving road leads into taller fins, while short paths pass between narrow walls and reveal more open country through gaps in the rock.
The walking sections stay close to the fins and towers, with sandy paths at their bases and increasingly heavy cloud beyond the rock.
Two larger openings frame the rock in different ways: one cuts high through a wall, while the other view looks along a deep sandstone corridor.
Closer views shift attention from the larger landscape to thin towers, ledges and the dense surface patterns cut into the sandstone.
The last selected frame leaves the rock formations behind and records a dark storm front with several visible rain shafts crossing the horizon.