Fish River Canyon Window

Gallery: LandscapePosted July 22, 2012163 views7 comments

Dug this one up from our 2009 hike through the Fish River Canyon in Namibia. This was taken right at the start of the hiking trail where you begin a steep descent to the canyon floor.

It was a rare-for-winter overcast morning with slight drizzling rain from time to time.

This was still early days for me in terms of landscape photography, so I basically just shot on-the-go...but I do hope there are more undiscovered shots like this in those archives.

You'll want to view the larger file as opposed to this one!

Techs:
f11 @ 1/160 SS @ ISO-200
handheld, single exposure double RAW processed for dynamic range

Comments

7 comments

Comment posted by Nick Bristol on July 22, 2012 at 5:55 PM

Morkel, That is an awesome looking place! The large version looks great and I like the colors in this, and you had a wonderful sky. I think you did very well on this, and a nice one to go back and find!

Nick Bristol
Lone Rock, WI

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Comment posted by Nancy Lea Sandy on July 22, 2012 at 6:20 PM

The larger image rocks! Terrific view and great colors.

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Comment posted by Joe James on July 22, 2012 at 8:21 PM

Another winner Morkel! I really love the colors on this one, well done.

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Comment posted by Tony Kuyper on July 22, 2012 at 8:49 PM

The light is handled very well here. The scene doesn't "wow" me, though I do like how the foreground frames the more distant canyon.

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Comment posted by Mark Seaver on July 22, 2012 at 8:58 PM

Very nice! I like the "window" effect of the foreground rocks and how they frame the distant river and it's canyon. The depth and colors are great also.

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Comment posted by David Edwards on July 23, 2012 at 5:25 AM

Mining the archives ey?

I quite like this scene. The fg rocks and grasses are very nice, and I like the fg 'V' shape opening up to the scene below. The fg and bg is quite tonally similar, which tends to lose some distinction between the two areas, but the 'openness' of the vista is well portrayed nonetheless.

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Comment posted by Morkel Erasmus on July 25, 2012 at 3:49 PM

Thanks for your thoughtful comments, guys. I would love to return here in better light and now being better prepared to "work the scenes"

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