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American Basin #1

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Posted by John Zinn on August 21, 2006 at 12:43 PM
Based on Rich Voninski's post back in the middle of July, I decided to head to the San Juans for two days at the end of July and the flowers were still great. To save some bytes I won't repost the image, but here is one over in ES&S where I tried to capture some red, white and blue flowers. Thanks Brent for the directions up from Lake City!

American Colors in American Basin

John
Posted by Momo Vuyisich on August 21, 2006 at 3:50 PM
Beautiful photo. Too bad the JPEG artefacts have slightly degraded it. Thanks for posting.
Posted by John Zinn on August 21, 2006 at 4:42 PM
Momo, I don't really know why but this one had so much detail I had to seriously reduce the JPEG quality just to get something under 200k. Them's the breaks I guess.
Posted by Ken Einig on August 21, 2006 at 9:07 PM
John, Great shot. I have contemplated walking to that spot several times, always on a bright sunny day w/o any clouds, so I did not. You got one - yeah!

On another note, you might want to check your PS workflow. It should not be hard to get a 640X whatever shot posted under 100kb, much less 200kb. Check "Properties"on the pictures in my post in the Summer Waterfall thread. Both of them started as 400+MB scans
Posted by Rick Dunn on August 21, 2006 at 10:13 PM
Fantastic work, John. The ecclectic foreground is wonderful - diverse and rich without being cluttered or chaotic.
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Posted by John Zinn on August 22, 2006 at 12:56 PM
Thanks guys. I'll post a few more in a bit.
Posted by Brent Doerzman on August 22, 2006 at 1:11 PM
Very nice John! I am fortunate enough to have seen the transparency in person, and let me tell you, it zings!!! I remember it got john and I on a discussion of polarizer use. And yes John, I have finally experimented a little with it. :biggrin:

More, more!!!