San Juan River

A perfect look and capture here, Adam. A fantastic scene worked into an amazing composition. Excellent work.

WOW! Absolutely incredible textures and color. I really like the blue water against the warmer earth tones. Flawless comp and light.

Wpw killer shot dude.

Dang, talk about a great image with great comp and color. You nailed this!

Wow....this is really nice. I like how the river snakes it's way into the rock. And great light of course! Is this near goosenecks?

Adam,

Absolutely stunning! The light is incredible and the blue reflecting the s-curve river is a compositional dream! Then there's the wonderful texture, detail and form in the cliffs and surrounding terrain. Awesome image.

Lon

This is gorgeous! Absolutely stunning image!

Wow, it's like God decided to put a perfect spotlight on the scene you were composing. Very nice.

Nice light, Nice composition, Nice capture.
Need I say more

Incredible light! Nicely ambiguous sense of scale too. I like!

Is this just behind Mexican Hat? I am always impressed by those sweeping eroded forms. Very strong image.

Absolutely wonderful colors, light and shapes. Perfect!

Marvelous photo Adam

Excellent shot! Fantastic colors and composition.

Great layering, combined with wonderful warm and cool tones make this a winner!

Sweet light. The combination of red colours against the river is stunning.

WOW! That is one cool photograph! Excellent composition and light. Looks like Comb Ridge Monocline? Maybe its just me but it seems like the photo would benefit from a tiny counterclockwise rotation (<1 degree). Great work Adam!

Amazing photograph, Adam! Everything is perfect here. Wow! Love it!

Nice, simple and very pretty.

- Dan.

Wow, this is very powerful! I feel like I'm looking back in time.

Very cool....and warm, too. I really enjoy looking at this one. Simple and striking. Well done.

Man, that's just some amazing light. Very well seen and captured!

Having driven about the dirt 4WD roads in that MH area some, I was quite impressed with some of the photographic possibilities as this superb river subject you found here. There is so much in our remote lands that 99% of photographers regularly just drive right by as though if it ain't already well known then there must not be anything there worth looking at. Especially nice are bands of sedimentary sandstone like those in your background that have been nicely eroded such that they stand out wonderfully with a bit of off axis shadowing light. If one hits that region in May after a good winter, the wildflowers are an abundant compliment too. It takes both understanding the time of day it is most possible and effort moving about the landscape to find the optimal point where a water reflection will provide a good reflection of blue sky hues. ...David

Adam, this is a beautiful and provocative photograph. It really tells a story. Awesome.

This is outstanding, Adam. The variety of textures in the cliffs and badlands (?) above the river is really a treat. Nice warm/cool contrast too.

This is outstanding, Adam. The variety of textures in the cliffs and badlands (?) above the river is really a treat. Nice warm/cool contrast too.

Wow. Amazing image. Great Detail, and the light reflecting on the river completes the feeling here.

Awesome. nuff said.

Doesn't get much better. Great light, composition and geology.

Looks like the Raplee Anticline. West side?

This is beautiful. Excellent!!!!

Stunning! Is that the Water Pocket Fold in the distance ?

For those of you that were asking about the location Bill Pelzmann got it right. This is the west side of the Raplee Anticline near Mexican Hat.

Thank you to everyone for your comments and suggestions.

Beautifully composed and great use of the bold colors and lines in the landscape. What a great image!

Guy

Adam: Jaw dropping beautiful. Superb capture. >=))>

I love that snaking S-curve and the river bank is also beautiful. Great shot.

Adam, this is one of the best images I've viewed in a long time. There is nothing not to love with this one. The upper part of the image really puts this over the top for me. If this isn't an icon location it soon will be!

Thanks for sharing

You really do SE Utah proud, Adam. You make me want to spend more time there. This is beautiful.

I love this.

I like the absence of the sky here. Good range of colours, which all are strong. I think a crop would work very nicely, where you cut 50% of the mountains above (say, draw the crop line where the first hill in the middle ends) :)

What an awesome view. Perfect compo, great light.

I love the composition, the graphic shapes, and the warm and cool here.

Amazing shot Adam. I have driven past there numerous times and have always wanted to stop and shoot the anticline, but it seems like evertime I'm there the conditions are terrible, but you've inspired mr to keep trying.

Awesome shot Adam!!! It looks as if this is where the river enters the goosenecks which is a pretty cool feature in itself.

John

Scott,
This is a shot that I've wanted to do for a long time but the light was never "right". It finally took a clear late spring evening to get the conditions that I wanted. I happy to hear that my shot has inspired you to keep trying. Thank you.

Tony,
Your PS actions helped with the creation of this photograph. Thanks again for making them available to all of us.

For those of you that are interested in Tony's Luminosity Masks actions, you can find them here: http://www.goodlight.us/writing/luminositymasks/luminositymasks-1.html

I knew this was one of your best since the moment I saw it printed at TME. A well deserved EP.

And the good news is Adam has dozens of images of this quality or better that he's taken in the past year or so. Hopefully, he'll share them all here, as he's really taken his already incredible body of work to the next level.

Grats on the EP, really well deserved!

congrats for a well deserved EP, excellent comp

I like the way the compression of the longer focal length emphasizes the line and color in the photo. At first glance, I got the impression the image was soft and could use some more refined sharpening.

Hi Adam,

Congratulations on the EP.

This image deserves to be a magazine cover--somewhere.

Beautiful composition, layers, and wonderful light.

Congratulations, again.

Regards,

Carol

Fantastic light, colours and composition!

David

Beautiful image! Love the lighting and the comp.

light in the canyon makes a nice background and the s-curve leads into it. very nice composition.