Friction Smooth

"I logged 40 visits to this area and the resulting images portray the grit, the colorless, the colorful, and the miracle of a pastel sunset as it smoothes the deep shadows between cones and desert washes...The conjoined terms friction and smooth, refer to the action that created each of these landmark areas - with the smooth lakebed polished by the winds and the frictional activity of the explosive volcanoes created the friction and heat that chunked out streams of molten lava and molten rock leaving the cones and basalt layers of the natural landmark."