Monument Valley morn

[ltdedorc]

This pic was taken in 1981 & just scanned to convert into digital to burn onto a CD. This was taken hurriedly early in the morning while camping in the valley. Not even time to put my contact lens on. I cropped to a 1.5 : 1 ratio to minimize the expanse of sky but I wish a had more of the foreground and less of the sky as well as the left base of the left 'mitten' which is truncated. Comments will be appreciated...Harvey

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[slejhamer]

Love those soft colors! Nice that you were able to digitize it.

A couple of distractions, though:

1. The blown-out highlight in the upper left corner. Try darkening it or cloning over it with a segment of cloud.

2. The blurred lines (foliage?) at bottom center. Easy enough to cover up.

If you want to de-emphasize the sky even more, you could crop to 2:1 and get a faux panorama, but then you'd lose the clouds. If you are not a purist, you could "cheat" and clone them further down the image before cropping... :)

Cheers,

[Leighow]

HARVEY

I think that I am only getting a thumbnail. But I like it.

An what a coincidence.. just three hours ago, I shot a mauve sky at the Bruce Pit. I just finished cropping and I would post here -- but I do not want to detract from you own fine show.

Frankly I knod of like it like it is. It is simply a mood, and some soft colors. A fine example of how there is so mych variation if sky colours at dusk. In what month were you camping here?

Thanks

HOWIE

[ltdedorc]

Thx for your comments Mitch & Howie. I did darken the upper left hand corner with some mauve clouds but left the blurred weeds in the foreground. Personally I like them as they break up the 'manotony ' of the horizon.

Howie, we were there the later part of June after the kids were out of school. That area of the American southwest is a great place to visit and take pix. Places like Natural Bridges National Monument, Gooseneck of the San Juan River, Mesa Verde, Chaco Canyon, 2nd Mesa (where the Navajo & Hopi frown on people taking pix), Petrified Forest, Walnut Canyon & the Grand Canyon, especially the North Rim for sunrises & mostly sunsets...Harvey