Zabriski Point, Death Valley

Zabriski Point is a well known viewpoint at the eastern entrance to Death Valley. It is a part of the Amargosa Range in Death Valley, and is composed of sediments from Furnace Creek Lake, which dried up 5 million years ago. This part of DeathValley is noted for its erosional landscape, composed of sediments that were collected at the bottom of the lake in the form of saline muds, gravels from nearby mountains, and ash falls from the then active Black Mountain volcanic field. (Wikipedia: Zabriski Pont) What is striking about Zabriski Point is the colour of the landscape. This image was post processed in Photoshop to create the effect that I was looking for when I actually took the photograph. I de-saturated the blue background and the reddish foreground, which enables the viewer to focus on the yellow band in the middle distance. It becomes the central focus of the image.