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Golden Sunlight on Factory Butte

A dramatic view of Factory Butte in Utah, featuring fluted grey shale slopes with visible rain runoff, illuminated by a shaft of golden sunlight on its sandstone cap against a backdrop of dark, stormy clouds and rain curtains over the badlands.

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