Location Taken: Craters of the Moon National Monument, Idaho
Time Taken: June 2010
Somehow this hill doesn’t quite look real.
I think it’s the perfect color gradient. Real life tends to be messy, and the only places you find such perfect gradients are in the sky and on very small things like flower petals.
Well, add cinder cones to that list, because that’s quite a marvelous blend between dark cinders and sun-lit cinders.
It really does look like something you can make in Photoshop in five seconds, though. Well, a minute, maybe. There is a touch of texture there, and some shadows. And there’s the section with actual vegetation, which would take a lot longer. But that hill? Selection tool, mark off the area, Gradient tool, fill it in. Easy peasy.
