Everyone is my friend until they prove otherwise.
Here’s an attempt to manipulate perspective at the edge of the road in the desert.
The real problem of this photo is that it was taken in Spring, and really doesn’t look like full desert because everything to the right or left of the area I cropped to was blooming or green.
Here’s a spot on the highway between Searchlight and Las Vegas last Friday, most of the clouds were over the mountains and we even hit a few gaps and sunny sections on the way to catch my plane. The flight back was a bit of a mess, a take off alarm kept us from flying in the original plane and we had to move to a new plane — the good news was that the airlines held the flight connecting back to Kansas City and I only got in an hour or so late.