Every time I head west, I try to add some days to the trip to visit some new places or revisit some great places. A little over four years ago, I was headed to Monument Valley to spend a few days before a Moab Photo Tour. I met up with Jaki Good Miller in Albuquerque and we headed out on the five-hour drive to Monument Valley. I had never visited Monument Valley from the south, and as we passed the town of Kayenta, we saw this very unique rock formation. We immediately stopped to shoot this scene. Turns out that this 1,500 foot formation is actually a volcanic plug that has blocked a vent of a volcano. As you can see, it really sticks out because of all of the flat land that surrounds it.