One thing about the badlands, its erosion is the quickest of all landscapes. Material on the ground is shaped by water and wind continually, and always changes.
Comparison are odious. I wrote that for one of the Sullage books and it simply means, if you’ve done your job right, than there’s a point where comparisons aren’t worth it. Comparisons are approriate for mimics, copy-freaks and those trained in institutions of learning and culture. Comparisons are also great ways to communicate in order to understand something in context, measure its worth and evaluate it.
Knowing all about the case for and against originality, the camera is ideally suited to capture the novel, fleeting and the permanent.
Whether random events of weather and geogolgy or planned by people who made it, or the rare moment in time, and especially if this is its only depiction, than it’s novel.
It may or may not be attainable, but one of a kind is a worthy goal, and has nothing to do with what’s better, but what’s real, which asks that you master chance.