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Light on the Rosillos
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Light on the Rosillos

by Alberto Patiño

Gallery: LandscapePosted June 28, 201780 views4 comments
The July monsoon over the Rosillos Mountains, in the remote northern section of Big Bend. "Rosillo" is Castilian for a horse color that is sort of a light reddish/brown, something like a Bay or a Roan in English. In the late afternoon sun, the mountains look like Rosillo horses in the distance. From Chihuahuan Light

P.S. One should never substitute Spanish for Castilian. There is no Spanish language, any more than there is a British language. Castilian, Catalonian, Galician and Basque are four different languages spoken in what is now Spain, just as English, Welsh, Irish Gaelic and Scots Gaelic are four different languages spoken in Great Britain. English and Castilian were the languages of the empowered elites that ruled over the British and Spanish empires. A pet peeve of mine  - my mother tongue is Castilian, my father's was Galician, and my maternal grandmother's Catalonian.enlightened

Comments

4 comments
Comment posted by Wayne Jones on June 28, 2017 at 9:31 PM
The light and the clouds shaping it here have given you a gift that you transformed into a exquisite photograph. The composition is beautiful, making use of all there is to see from the foreground cacti to the distant mountains slightly veiled by miles of atmosphere.

Thanks for the language lesson.  I bet most people think that those mountains were named by a Spanish explorer.
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Comment posted by scott lanz on June 29, 2017 at 6:35 AM
Very nice, Alberto. Excellent light, nicely balanced comp, beautiful rich colors, terific detail. Processing looks perfect to me. 
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Comment posted by Ed Lowe on June 29, 2017 at 8:49 AM
Beautiful image, Alberto. The lighting here is sublime and I love the crispness of the FG grasses and cacti juxtaposed against the BG mountain partially obscured by the approaching storm. I also enjoyed your commentary on the different languages.

Ed
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Comment posted by gary phillips on June 29, 2017 at 10:36 PM
This is special, Alberto.  At first glance, I thought bringing more drama from the sky, would kick this up a notch.  But after viewing the large, I think you got it exactly right.  It's about the intensely lit middle ground and the more subtle dapple in the background.  This image really has an outstanding presence.  A quiet beauty that is hard to do.  Congrats.
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