Blue Ridge Parkway Sunset C&C welcome

2nd post...long time reader. I took these photos 2 separate times but at the same place. C&C welcome. Which do you like better?

Great shots, that is good motorcycle riding territory too.

yeah, there's alot of motorcycles on the Parkway. I live about 10 minutes from the Parkway.

I like #1 , the sun flare is too distracting in #2.

I like #1 a lot more. The sky is blown out but I like the composition and the rest of the lighting much better. I would have liked you to get lower maybe and get some of that "golden" grass framed closer. Nice shot.

The second one doesn't really do anything for me. I think it actually would have been nicer without the trees in the foreground as the lighting over the mountains themselves looks beautiful.

Number one the sky is way blown out. Composition is nice but the sky is way too distracting.

Number two is nice but the lens flare kills it.

cameltrophy24 wrote in post #9759592
yeah, there's alot of motorcycles on the Parkway. I live about 10 minutes from the Parkway.

That means you stay nice and cool in the summer.
Camped for a week along the parkway.
Came off the Mts of Georgia it was 105

Good shots.

With a screenname like that, I can't help but think you ride bike Bianchi...I'm assuming if you do, you ride a Bianchi... I ride mountain mostly, but do road bikes too.

With a little editing trickery, you could have a couple of decent shots. The first shot is probably easier to work with....replacing the blown sky with something less toasted. We have had so many crappy skies like that over the past several months....I look at it and see it as being normal!

Welcome to the forum....several of us shoot the Parkway on a fairly regular basis....where do you hail from?

I'm from West Jefferson in Ashe County.

The parkway is a great place for photography. I like your composition on both, but as mentioned the sky is blown out in the first. You have some flare in the second but that's to be expected to some extent. You can actually edit a lot of that out. Nice shots.

cameltrophy24 wrote in post #9764617
With a screenname like that, I can't help but think you ride bike Bianchi...I'm assuming if you do, you ride a Bianchi... I ride mountain mostly, but do road bikes too.

So now you know what I was doing up there in there dar mts.

My wife rides a road Bianchi
I ride Serrotta, and Independent Fabrication road
I do have a Bianchi hrdtail mtn bike.

Nice bikes. I ride a Lemond road bike, K2 Razorback Team cross country bike, Jamis Dakota Comp hardtail and a KHS downhill bike. I actually used to build bikes with Brew Racing Frames here in Ashe County.

I cannot help wondering if combining the foreground of the one shot with the sky of the other would work. Granted it would be tricky to get it to look right, the foreground would need darkening while the sky and hills lifted a little.

cameltrophy24 wrote in post #9767956
Nice bikes. I ride a Lemond road bike, K2 Razorback Team cross country bike, Jamis Dakota Comp hardtail and a KHS downhill bike. I actually used to build bikes with Brew Racing Frames here in Ashe County.

FYI There was a national custom bike builders meet a couple weeks back up in Richmond

NAHBS web site
http://www.handmadebic​ycleshow.com/...spende​dpage.cgi