The ones taken with oblique light are much more effective. I especially like the first Wahweep hoodoo with the shaded cliff behind it. The shots with direct frontal sunlight are pretty flat, which has nothing to do with focus or d.o.f., but is due to the lack of contrast and shadows to give the eye spatial cues. The Horseshoe Bend shot, while sharp, has the same problem. The use of HDR probably made that image even flatter tonally than it would have been without. Some landscapes look good in low-contrast soft light, but I don't find that the case for the rocky West. If the geological formations have dramatic colors the frontal light can still result in an okay snapshot, but dramatic colors plus oblique light to model the fascinating landscape will give you much more interesting photos. Not always easy to do when traveling, especially with non-photographers who want to fill the day with as many sights and/or activities (not to mention brute miles) as possible.

Fine shots!

Nice shots, and a good tip on a site to visit. Thanks.

Per Wikipedia, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Torres_del_Paine_National_Park#Fires, there were three major fires in the area in recent history, 1985, 2005 and 2011/12. That may account for the lack of sizable trees. We hiked through forests a good deal of the trip (staying nights at the refugios with bunks, hot meals and showers), but probably through some of the 1985 burn as well - just didn't notice it with 18 years of regrowth in place. It is a remarkable place, in danger of being loved to death like anyplace accessible. I guess we're part of the natural history, though. Given the weather, it's amazing anything ever burns there, but I gather it's fairly common, and I suppose that once a fire gets started the wind would really spread it fast.

Metadata matters, IMHO. Just trying to be helpful. Was your photo taken from the SE corner of Lago Pehoe? We took the ferry to Albergue Pehoe, on the NW bay, and went hiking on the "W" route in 2003. At the time I had only a 5MP Olympus jpg-only point & shoot, but still got some memorable snapshots. Iheard there was a big forest fire in the area a few years ago. Did you see any sign of it, or has regrowth masked the damage?

Of the Torres del Paine...

Caught my friend Bruce crossing the vertical band produced by reflection off of ice plates drifting in the air. Apparently those of some shapes and sizes tend to float nearly horizontal most of the time, however there were little sparkles everywhere. Quite a pretty (and cold) day at Whistler.
Shot with my Galaxy S7.

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If it's even moderately well grounded, it's way safer than a wood house in a lightning storm. A metallic enclosure forms a Faraday cage. Stay out of the windows, and if you do step outside make it a clean jump and land with your feet together, then hop away from the house (which will attract lightning) landing each time with both feet equidistant from the house.

I've come home from 3-week treks with 7000 files, usually both RAW and jpg, so over 1000 shutter actuation per week. With virtually free "film" it's hard to not shoot anything even moderately interesting, in case it is as good as it's going to get (weather can change, one can get sick. ...). Even just walking around home it's easy to run up a few hundred on bugs and flowers in an hour of bracketed or focus stacked shots.

Gee, thanks!

I decided to take the scenic route over the Dallas Mountain Road going home from The Dalles this afternoon. The atmosphere was rapidly condensing into the oncoming cold front, casting a lovely soft and silvery light over Mt. Hood and the Gorge.

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Nice to see some non PS-ychadelic images of the area, although the dawn light can be spectacular without any help. You got nice contrast, interesting compositions and good dynamic range in both shots, to my eye.

It's a hoverfly.

Most of the contrails are not Chem trails but RNA being spread by the aliens in a desperate attempt to genetically re-engineer us into a reliable food source that won't self destruct before it gets to a sustainable population to harvest.

You could warm the gear before leaving the house. If you can heat an oven to a little under the lowest maximum temperature rating for your gear and monitor it with a thermometer you trust, the warm oven will raise the temperature slowly. A safer procedure might be to either use the broiler with the gear on a low shelf and turn it often, so the gear warms up faster than the air, or use a radiant heater and do the same thing. If your indoor humidity is low, a closed oven would be okay, but if you have humid indoor air, warming the air faster than the camera could result in the conditions that cause the fogging outside. The trick is to use radiant heat to leave the air cooler but warm up the nice black equipment. Just don't rush it, and don't run out and throw your nice warm gear into a cold car as it will cool off and then fog again when you get out. Safest would be to just store the gear at outdoor temperature or a little higher.