I shot this picture from the parking lot of Calico Ghost Town, Yermo, California.   I've greatly increased the exposure to bring the rock out of the afternoon shade; hence the white areas at top and bottom.  I've also increased the color saturation.

The picture started with four shots, each with 2272 x 1704 pixels, with the direction of the camera changed between shots as necessary to cover the length of the formation.  I stitched the four shots together using the camera's software to yield a panoramic view.  After I clipped the top and bottom, the pixel size of the final panoramic view was 4766 x 1448.   I used the exposure-modification feature of ACDSee software to modify the brightness, gamma, and color saturation.  Here is the unaltered panoramic view, and here is the enhanced panoramic view (each a little less than two-megabytes).  

When you bring up one of the last two links, you will probably see nothing but white space.  That's because you're looking at one corner of a very large file.  As you scroll horizontally or vertically or both, you'll see the rock formation.  I like to scroll through the image and see various parts of the formation come into view.

You can also see the overall formation, but in a reduced size (953 x 578 pixels, 74,837 bytes) here.  That file has a side-by-side comparison of the unaltered panoramic view (top) and the same view after I had fiddled with brightness, gamma, and color saturation.   Although this may give the impression that the altered view is misleadingly artificial, I think it more accurately shows what I remember seeing.