Layers of Time and Light
San Rafeal Swell, Utah
Evening shadows stretch across the striated hills of the Utah badlands as the distant ramparts of Capitol Reef glow beneath a ceiling of clouds. This fleeting light—soft, directional, and golden—reveals the raw textures of a landscape carved by millennia of erosion and uplift. A moment where geologic time and present beauty collide. Photo © copyright by Joseph Rossbach.