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Cool image Les! The blueish clouds with the warm foreground works great!
I think my favorite image on your gallery page is the Color in HQ Canyon one. I'm a sucker for big walls like that, and this image has a real painterly feel to it. Nice!
Great work Les - a nice mixture of style, texture and color. Well done!
Dave Showalter
Posted by Les Barstow on March 30, 2006 at 11:23 AM
I have to admit I'm a sucker for desert varnish and big walls, too. It wars with my fascination with rock-and-tree images (hence the posted photo); the Mormon Tea was close enough to 'tree' to catch my attention on the HQ Canyon picture.
I took about a dozen shots of that yellow rock outcrop, and only two were tack-sharp on further review. Both were horizontals, hence the square cropping - the rest was less-interesting rock wall and Tea bushes.
Stunning presentation, very strong and full of layers to please the eye!
Posted by Tony Bouchard on March 30, 2006 at 4:22 PM
Les,
Nice work here - I like the combination of colors.
I'm going out to Monument Valley at the end of next week myself and I can hardly stand being at work right now...
You and I met last Thanksgiving at Mesa Arch - I finally joined up. My Mesa Arch shots from that trip are here.
Posted by Les Barstow on March 30, 2006 at 5:10 PM
Nice stuff; glad to "see" you here. My two Mesa Arch shots are on my Most Recent gallery (until I get these Capitol Reef shots a companion or two...); I like yours a lot.
Posted by Dan Walters on March 30, 2006 at 10:41 PM
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10 repliesThe album is here
I think my favorite image on your gallery page is the Color in HQ Canyon one. I'm a sucker for big walls like that, and this image has a real painterly feel to it. Nice!
Dave Showalter
I took about a dozen shots of that yellow rock outcrop, and only two were tack-sharp on further review. Both were horizontals, hence the square cropping - the rest was less-interesting rock wall and Tea bushes.
Nice work here - I like the combination of colors.
I'm going out to Monument Valley at the end of next week myself and I can hardly stand being at work right now...
You and I met last Thanksgiving at Mesa Arch - I finally joined up.