The warm/cool contrast is great. Love the perspective you chose here. I think this also works cropped just above the tree...the loss of sense of scale when doing so is interesting, IMO. Great find.
Nice perspective. The lone tree is photogenic enough to stand independently in a rather barren stretch in the foreground. The sky serves to compliment; with a particularly nice array of large cumulous; which makes me almost wish there was a wee bit more of it to balance the massive proportion of the frame devoted to the foreground. Regardless, this image is a clever and artistic approach to capturing the uniqueness of the area.
Rick, glad to hear you had a good trip. This is interesting seeing a tree growing in this environment, however the overall image is not doing a whole lot for me.
The tree itself and the lower half of the image in general is popping off the page for me, but something got lost in the land/sky intersect. I think the grad line is too noticeable, and given the sunny lighting, just looks a bit strange. Comp is nice though.
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9 repliesthe balance of color between the clouds, sky and foreground are great...
well exposed!