Rusty Cans with Sage

Interesting find here, D.A. Could also fit the EPJ gallery too. I really enjoy the historical connection to sites like this during my own photo outings.

The plant, I think sage, is a good contrast and focal point for the scene. During my visits to the Alabama Hills through the years I always carried a trash bag and picked up loose debris for disposal. Mostly bottles, tin cans, and of course aluminum cans too. Amazing how much stuff one can find out there.

Great detective work and fine comp. I would clone out small branch lrc.

Very nice contrast of colors. Cropping down from the top to center the bush is a nice composition too, and eliminates that bright rock(?). I also would clone away those intruding twigs.

Thanks for the comments folks. Those twigs are a bit more cloning than I normally like to do, I should have just broken them off if I had noticed them The square crop idea makes sense, too.
Paul, my wife and I are always picking up trash in wilderness areas and national parks and bringing it home to throw away. Earlier this week we collected a bunch of used toilet paper around Sentinel Dome in Yosemite. We decided we need to bring latex gloves in the future...

Sad but funny, too. Those miners sure liked to dump their trash everywhere, and occasionally, it makes interesting art.

Not only a commentary on a different time, (when littering was not as much a concern as surviving, I suppose) but also a surprisingly good-looking intimate landscape. We know it's trash, but the rusty cans are not that far visually from red rocks, are they? Glad you didn't just pass this up.

D.A, A very interesting image you made from times gone by. Wonderful eye to capture this instead of just walking by. It tells an interesting story and you captured it very well.

Nick Bristol
Lone Rock, WI

Wonderfully original composition. Glad I found it so late. Thanks for sharing.