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When we went into Moab I was disappointed with the sky. I wanted the same blue skies that I had seen in some of the best photographs of the arches. Occasionally, I would get lucky and grab a hint of blue in some of my shots. When we drove away from this scene and I saw it in the rear view mirror, I told my husband to pull over. I ran out of the truck and up a hill to grab this panoramic shot of the angry skies spilling onto the arid landscape. It was at this point I realized that the fact that I had no blue sky to work with was indeed a challenge sent directly to me from above. (Yup... I soooo just ended a sentence in a preposition...) I have never been known to take photographs the traditional way or to see things like everyone else... why would I start now??? At this point, I decided to change my attitude and realized that I needed to take beautiful non- blue sky photographs to show Moab in its rarer state, a state of vulnerability. This photograph was composed from I think ten or eleven photographs. Original image size is 22,169 pixels x 5,799 before cropping out the white edges.