Just slap your camera on a tripod and use the light to paint an image of your own creation. Since the near-black silhouette takes up the majority of the image I pointed the camera up and metered off the sky and then used that exposure for the final image rather than just letting the camera determine the exposure. Any camera would have overexposed this image because it would have seen too much black in the center of the frame and tried to compensate for it. If this image had been overexposed, the sky would have appeared almost white. During the Springtime the desert is in bloom.
Wildflowers are everywhere - at least by desert standards.
Now, you can't expect the lush green pastures filled with blossoms that you get in greener climates, but a patch of wildflowers here and there is an absolute delight in the normally barren desert. One of my favorite desert plants is Indian Paintbrush with its brilliant red flowers. I used a small aperture for adequate depth of field to keep all three flowers in focus. I just loved the natural frame that this silhouetted pinon tree created for some of the sandstone fins in the distance. Before composing this shot I stood on a nearby rock and took an exposure reading off the distant sunlit fins.