Storm Passing

This is a real beauty John!! I love the placement of the prickly pear too, and the dramatic sky puts it over the top. Great image.

Awesome image and display John!!

John,

What a great wildflower landscape. I really like the inclusion of the cacti - it really provides context for the location and more importantly, it's almost one of a kind! Great color and use of the wide angle.

Lon

what an awesome display of flower power! Great shot

Man, what a display of flowers. Nice.

John, this is one heck of a nice image.
I love the warm soft tones.
It reminds me of that scene in the Wizard of Oz, when the encounter the entire landscape of flowers.
Nice work.

wow, look at that field of flowers, amazing. Love the dramatic sky along with it. What a palette of colors!!!

The perspective is powerful. Very nice.

Awesome shot, John. What a huge amount of flowers. For the sake of color contrast, I might want to put a hint of blue in the sky overall.

Now thats a healthy grouping of flowers! I love the inclusion of the cactus...

Beautiful display, the cactus really sets this apart. Great work.

what a display and the sky is perfect

The clarity in the FG is outstanding as is the composition. I agree with Andrea's suggestion of adding a touch of blue in the sky. I thought the same thing too before I read his comment. If it were mine I consider cloning out the contrails in the sky and coming down a bit from the top as well. I hope this helps.

Michael

Wow, look at those flowers! Great capture John!

Awesome perspective, it has a big sense of greatness and the colors you already know are fabulous.

Beautiful flowers and beautiful capture. It looks kind of happy and also dramatic to me. Love this, John.

John, love all the colors and these go very well together. Are those cow patties on the ground? Probably make pretty good fertilizer if they are. I also like the subdued sky instead of the blue we mostly see in these images. Nice work.

Very pretty, love the angle of view and the blossoms are bold and beautiful. I like it with about a 1/4 crop from the top as well. Nice way to pass the time, while waiting out a storm.

Great foreground cactus, and some amazing flowers! Imagine this place during sunrise...

Oh yeah! Stunning! I dream of one day seeing something like this. I love the DOF in this and the detail all the way through. Lovely! My only nit is that I'd like to see that back hill just a tad lighter, but that's really getting nit picky.

Oh my what a beautiful display of flowers! I love the cactus right in the middle to remind us that this is in fact the desert in bloom! Looks like there's a bit of a magenta cast?

A real beauty, John.

Wow!! Arizona really has put on a good show this year. Really wonderful image John, enjoying it very much.

The light of the sun is quite subtle, but very important here. Never seen something like that. An incredible image, John!

Michael, thanks for the suggestions. Those are actual clouds, not contrails. (Darn our modern era, I too dislike clouds that look like contrails.) I had to smile, because I returned the following morning to this area, and there were three jets dogfighting overhead. This is a rural part of Arizona, and they do that now and again. Awesome to watch, but they add a lot of noise to a peaceful scene.

Dean, those are volcanic rocks, typical in this area.

Floris, probably. I ramped up the mag/grn a little in lab, maybe too much.

Good eye Dorin. Those shadows are subtle, but the light really added to the scene as the clouds thinned a little. The poppies were just starting to open a bit.

Great image, like everything about it. Was this from this year? I was in that area last year and never saw anything like this. Well done.

Very nice, I was surprised and pleased to see the cactus pop up as I opened the image since I hadn't noticed it in the thumb nail. I love the close flowers in the foreground.

What a fantastic image John. Just beautiful.
John

Quite the sea of color. Real sweet.

Man those are some vibrant flowers. Your processing really brought them out and the colors just pop. Was it overcast? Love the mix of cacti too.
Wonderful comp John

John,

Ditto all comments, and I agree the linear clouds are not contrails, first of all the altitude is really low for contrail formation and I can't recall ever seeing tapering contrails. Composition, technique and processing are spot on, but what a great find and with a dramatic sky to.

Paul

Strong comp, great color, and the sky adds some real mood. I like how the cactus breaks up the flowers.

Bob, it was from this year (just a couple of weeks ago).

Anthony, it was overcast, but the clouds were thinning a bit as the storm moved out. At the bottom of the photo you can see weak shadows from the flowers.

Thanks all!

"Flower Power" perfect description of this scene. Awesome!

Chris

Great detail in the foreground flowers and the flower/cactus combo really make this a wonderful image. I like the sky, too. Nicely done.

Beautiful color combo of those flowers. The lone cacti makes this great. Excellent blend.

Hi John,

just wondering if you have used the technique from your article as I am still struggling a little bit with blending the images for DOF. Mainly with that part how to take the images for that type of blend :-).
Anyway this image is wonderful.

beautiful, John. this is so nicely packed, couldn´t get any better. great detail and colors, mood too. well done.

Pavel, I did pretty much exactly follow the technique I described in the NPN Magazine article. Since your comment about taking the photos to blend is a technique point for DOF blending in general, I posted some thoughts in the Landscape Forum.

Detail is great! Larger version is a must. DOF blend really worked well here. Very colorful scene, nice catch!

Incredible image John. The bar is certainly set very high here. Thanks for sharing.

Wonderful John, love the colors and the cactus helps to break up the landscape nicely.

Haven't seen a flower stampede on a cactus like this. Fantastic find John.

John, Like the DOF & the colors are beautiful. Very pretty image!

Sharp throughout with great lighting and color. Very impressive, John.

Wow those colors are incredible. Or more specifically, the color combinations here are incredible. I love scenes like this where the colors combine to make an almost otherworldly color. The sky seems to have a slight magenta tint which could use correction, but maybe that's how it was.