Flowing Sand

Seeing this, I remembered a "flowing sand" photograph similar to this which someone posted here a couple of months ago. Just my personal opinion ... while both compositions are quite visually and artistically appealing, they feel perhaps a bit too ... "crafted" ... for the ES&S Gallery. Anyway ... nicely composed! I like the dark moody ambiance.

I don't mind the crafting--it's just that ive seen 1,367,895 photos of U Antelope, so it's a bit familiar. The dents in the sand conjure up the huge crowds to me. But it's a well composed shot--and it is a great place, so pay me the $20 antelope tax and you're good to go.

I love the multiplicity of shadows on the ground. Very neat lighting.

The lighting looks harsh to me, perhaps overcooked? It's a creative image with the flowing sand, but even this, too, is getting overdone in images from there. I can certainly appreciate your excitement and the joy of seeing such a place. It really is amazing. But like Stan, the first thing I thought of was a wonder about how you accomplished this in the typical throng of people stuffed in there. Glad you enjoyed your visit.

This indeed is an iconic place to photograph. That said, a good image is a good image. I like the composition. The color and light are nice, although I might back off on the saturation just a bit, but that is personal opinion and you were there to see what it was like.

Yes, I can see where this might bore some of you that can make it to these wonderful places all the time. But for a first trip into this area for an eastern guy it was pretty thrilling! Thanks for the feedback though.

I agree that the saturation may be turned back a bit. The difficulty with determining what this really looked like is that in reality it is too dark to really see the colors. Only when you slow down the camera with long shutter speeds (5 sec in this case) do you see the effect of whatever light there is in there. What the real colors are is up to interpretation. Perhaps I should have posted this in "Photo Art" as there seems to be a grain of that in here, and it apparently that does not sit well with some here in Landscape.

The moody ambience is very interesting and the flowing sand adds to that surreal sense. Yes, this seems like a strongly "artistic" treatment, but to me that's what individuality of vision is all about. I do like all the texture in the sand and the piece of driftwood.

I like this one a lot. It is a pretty good shot of that entrance area to canyon. Light and shadow work well here.