Excellent. #1 is spectacular.
rdgreenwood wrote:
Your photos are always excellent, but these seem to a bit too far over the top. I recognize I'm the minority voice here, but the set seems oversaturated or like overcooked HDR.
Whenever I have been in Pennsylvania, the light seemed flat but maybe its just the times i was there. Do you like your eggs raw too?
All are VERY Good.
No.2 has everything plus a rainbow!
Smile,
JimmyT Sends
Bravo Zulu
Superb captures!! All are great!! Congrats.
Nalu
Loc: Southern Arizona
Lovely images. It must be great to be out on days like that. Hard to choose. All nice. IMO, #1 begs for more sky. There have to be some great back roads in that area. Is Island Mesa just considered an area though of Moab, or is it a park with access information. Someday, I would like to visit.
sb
Loc: Florida's East Coast
Love # 1 - were you camping out?
Wow, what beautiful images. #1 is a stunning image, I am drawn right in from the foreground through the center to the distant mesa and clouds. There is so much beauty to see in this photo. #2 is a beautiful pano, and equally as good as #1. The trail draws you right in and to the mountains in the distance, then leading me to the storm clouds and the rainbow. Great shots, love the colors, detail, and your PP of them.
Nalu wrote:
Lovely images. It must be great to be out on days like that. Hard to choose. All nice. IMO, #1 begs for more sky. There have to be some great back roads in that area. Is Island Mesa just considered an area though of Moab, or is it a park with access information. Someday, I would like to visit.
Not only is it great to be out on days like that, I wait and watch for them, then go in whichever direction might provide the best background. In the 'original' merge of #1 (its a multi-image pano), there IS plenty more sky. The left side half of it contains some really good sky/cloud structure but the right side half is massively blown out (direct sun through the thinnest of clouds) and thus unrecoverable without looking completely phony, so it got cropped out. The 'Island Mesa' includes all of the Island In The Sky District of Canyonlands Nat'l Park plus a goodly amount of territory north of the park, including Dead Horse State Park and other places, accessible only by 4WD, that overlook the Colorado River, the Green River, and a number of deep canyons you'd be on the upper rims of, most of which can be truly spectacular under the right conditions. In effect, the parts of the 'Island Mesa' that most visitors see are in established parks (and there's plenty of info on them available on-line), while the other parts are a little trickier to get to.
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