Initial Wave

Gallery: LandscapePosted September 4, 20166,941 views13 comments

This was our first monsoon storm system of the season. Things got pretty real not long after this was taken. I'll follow up with one more image later this week and you can see what this storm morphed into in a matter of minutes. We had had some decent rain earlier in the day, and the rabbit brush and sage were almost glowing even after the sun had set pretty low behind some mountains to the west.

iso 100, 24-105mm @ 24mm, f/16, 1/30s

Your comments and critiques are greatly appreciated.

Way better large.

Comments

13 comments

Comment posted by Jake Alletson on September 4, 2016 at 11:43 PM

What a wonderful sky and I like how the cloud has lit the grass tufts as really shows in the large version. The B/W presentation has worked wel for this scene. The rain must have been very welcome.

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Comment posted by Sairam Sundaresan on September 5, 2016 at 2:05 AM

I love the dark contrasts here, your recent B&W work has been nothing short of exemplary

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Comment posted by scott lanz on September 5, 2016 at 8:54 AM

Excellent, Gary. I like the foreground detail to go with the dramatic sky. The detail and overall image is very striking in the larger view.

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Comment posted by Harley Goldman on September 5, 2016 at 9:51 AM

Beautiful, Gary. Lovely glow off the vegetation and a great sky.

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Comment posted by Mark Seaver on September 5, 2016 at 10:25 AM

You've definitely caught the drama of a major storm front here Gary. The lighting of the sage is great and adds to a fine long sense of depth with the distant mountains. If this was last week, it seems like your monsoon comes later that the AZ monsoon season or is this year unusual?

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Comment posted by Richard Sandor on September 5, 2016 at 12:16 PM

Gary: this is one of the most impressive landscapes I've seen in a long time. I really like the diagonal line the clouds form as well as the contrast between those bright clouds as compared to the softer mid tones of the brush and the darks of the sky. This one deserves a large spot on your wall. Richard

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Comment posted by Ronald Murphy on September 5, 2016 at 2:59 PM

The large image is stunning. I can smell the rain.

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Comment posted by Richard Teller on September 5, 2016 at 6:42 PM

Gary, I really like this. The image has great depth. I can feel the air getting heavy and the dampness as the storm approaches. It works really well as a B&W.

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Comment posted by Preston Birdwell on September 5, 2016 at 7:42 PM

This is superb to my mind. The diagonal cloud and the subtle glow on the sage really works. The tonality is perfectly done--print it, Gary!

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Comment posted by Alberto Patiño on September 6, 2016 at 1:23 PM

This is absolutely marvelous Gary - I can't offer any suggestions - speechless!!

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Comment posted by Igor Doncov on September 8, 2016 at 7:17 AM

Beautifully constructed, Gary. The clouds just jump out at you and the sagebrush has great luminosity. Even though it's in shadow it does not look flat. The black sky gives this image a lot of drama, which it already has. Nice job.

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Comment posted by Nick Bristol on September 8, 2016 at 5:10 PM

Very impressive b&w work, Gary. Those clouds are just awesome looking. devil

Nick Bristol
Lone Rock, WI.

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Comment posted by Eva McDermott on September 11, 2016 at 2:29 PM

The very ominous sky and striking contrast produce one moody and wonderful image Gary.

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