West Fork Bloom +Repost

I like this. The soft lighting really brings out the textures and subtle color shifts. I feel like the flower clump in the foreground may be slightly over saturated and I would like to see them closer to the bottom of the frame.

Doug,

Always refreshing to see new images from this Oak Creek. It certainly isn't an easy place to capture. Personally, I favor a crop of the entire top half of the image (actually about the top 40%). Also, I can understand what Mark is saying about the flowers being over saturated. I think maybe the surrounding rocks just need more contrast/punch to balance it better. Nice work!

Michael

As you're working with a wide angle I'll try to go near that flowers and give a little inclination to the right to get the entire distant tree in the frame.

PB

This generally works very well for me as posted. Maybe the saturation of the foreground plant is a bit strong, but that's a very minor nit. I like the composition and don't feel like a crop is necessary . . .

Beautiful scene well captured, Doug. Doing a back to back comparison of this and the horizontal version almost makes me feel as if I'm seeing two different scenes. I prefer this version very much, but think that cropping the top down to the top of of the opposing wall just above the yucca eliminates the distraction that is the brighter canyon wall in the background.

Very nicely done, Doug. The plant/flowers are a perfect foreground element and a nice staging area for launching into the rest of the scene.

Hi Doug - I like this a lot. The little patch of flowers helps ground the front elements and the river is a nice leading line to the background interest. You have been doing a great job in capturing this creek.

Doug,

Beautiful! Excellent comp and yes, it certainly does have a Narrows look to it.

Not really a nit, but I'm kinda wishing you could have moved to the right a little and got that bg pine a little more of a view. but then I expect you might have had to get your feet wet! Nice rich colors throughout, but not over done. Excellent.

Lon

Many thanks for the suggestions. The saturation level is more than I normally use, so will reduce it a notch or two. Will likely crop off the top section of brighter eye-grabbing rock.

Very nice Doug. An interesting comp and view that works very well for me. The colors also look nice on my monitor. I like just a bit of the bottom cropped out and also the brighter part at the top, which it sounds like you are leaning towards. I like this very much. I also looked at the other ones in the link you gave. The last one with the green leaves against the sandstone wall was a favorite for me. Nice work!

Nick Bristol
Lone Rock, WI

Like Nick, I find the saturation to be just fine, although I might tone it down just a bit in the reddish 'tunnel' near dead center.

I love this composition a lot. I don't think a crop is necessary.....maybe the flowers in the foreground a bit strong in saturation but that's minor. Beautiful soft light. I like this one here.

Your photos make me wish I had been a photographer all those years I lived in AZ. I love the pop the vegetation gives the foreground.

Repost incorporating some of your suggestions. Thank you for the input.