Cosmic Ashtray, Grand Staircase-Escalante National Monument, Utah, USA
photo by Galyna Andrushko
website - https://www.instagram.com/galyna_andrushko/?hl=en
original image - https://thumbs.dreamstime.com/z/cosmic-ashtray-unusual-natural-formation-cosmic-ashtray-grand-staircase-escalante-national-monument-utah-united-states-99940937.jpg
Straight out of Dune. In Utah, and there's going to be a plenty more of that state, as it's full of stuff like this.
I did a lot here. The original photo was at least a little overexposed, and while I could get the detail in the sky back, it was very grainy. Anyway, I didn't like the stark midday lighting, so I decided to change that. It was made possible by the Ashtray itself being just under a cloud shadow, and lit only indirectly. So I replaced the sky with sort of a sunset/duststorm variant for a moodier experience, giving the Ashtray a sort of secluded feel.
