Clouds Over Alabamas

I made a trip to the Alabama Hills a couple months ago hoping to come back with a decent black and white image. I hadn't been there in two years even though I live only an hour away!
I was hoping the approaching winter storm wouldn't cloud up completely before I could find something worthy.

My wife and I wound up here in this area for the afternoon and into sunset. It's near one of the better known arches, but I can't remember what it's name was. We'd never been to this area before so we set off to see what we could find. After shooting a few things here and there and not quite producing anything that created a spark. I turned around and noticed these rather cool looking rocks. Where did those come from? ;)

I had finally found a creative spark with these formations and set about trying different povs and FLs. I settled on this one during post work-up.

This is a two image blend one for sky and the other for the ground/rocks. Late afternoon lighting from the setting sun to the west over the crest.

5d, 24-105 @ 28, f22 b&w conversion via channel mixer CS2