Croce Loc: Earth

Went to Vegas for the weekend and decided to explore a highly touted little state park about an hour north of Las Vegas. It is small, about 8 x 6 miles but what a beauty. We figured on spending a couple of hours and ended up taking a day and a half to explore the place. It is filled with intruiging natural features. Red and white sandstone pillars, hills, behive shapes, buttresses, walls, you name it. There are endless eroded features with small, one person pigeon holes. I actually saw one slab sided red hill with perhaps 30 little 3x4 foot pigeon holes with half a dozen young people sitting in them. I started to unfold my tripod and set up for a shot but they scampered down before I could get one off. While traipsing around my wife stumbled upon this little beauty and I spent about an hour shooting it. I almost like it a lot but feel it could be better. Let me know what you think. Any and all suggestions welcome. Tried to post yesterday but could not get it to download.

Valley of Fire Cave

nanaval Loc: Cornwall

great colors

j10asen Loc: Wisconsin

I would like to visit that place sometime. Wind carved formations intrigue me very much.

I might zoom in a little on this shot like what I have displayed below.

Croce Loc: Earth

Hi J10, I had a hard time figuring out how much I wanted to zoom in on the scene and took many compositions and applied many different crops. I finally decided I liked the ceiling and some of the bottom included in a square format. But I believe there are many presentations which depict it nicely including your interpretation. Thank you for your suggestion. On a separate note however, I could not help but notice the severe vignetting in your photo. Did you have a lens hood on a very wide lens mounted on a crop body? I shot at 24mm on a full frame Canon 5DMkII (equivalent 15mm on a crop body) with a lens hood on and did not encounter a vignetting problem at all.

SWFeral Loc: SWNM

I almost like it a lot too. What a great find! I think I'd crop it some, mostly on the left and the bottom, but I like the little window onto the blue-green whatever in the distance, because it adds a contrasting color. I might also increase the contrast and saturation a teeny bit to emphasize the shapes. But I think you got a great shot.

tbohon Loc: Olympia, WA USA

Great shot and personally I like it just fine. What if you had a person in it - in profile perhaps - to show relative sizes? He/she could be looking at the blue spot perhaps.

Just rambling here, early morning for an old guy :)