Cloudscapes

This was taken just south of the Alvord desert, north of Fields,

Oregon this past June. It was truly a wonderful place and I got some

great clouds to work with. All comments are welcome.

Beautiful landscape -- a place I hope to visit in the near future.

Lovely work. This has the texture of a watercolor, expertly done on a toothy paper. A little like Andrew Wyeth. Your post-processing has elevated this already interesting scene.

Stephen, Jeff, thanks.

 

Jeff, thanks for the reference to Wyeth. I was unfamiliar with him and have enjoyed perusing his works. I think I understand why he came to you mind -- there is something about this landscape that evoke similar emotions for me as to when looking at much of his work. But, the differences in colour palette and use of light between him and I make your mental connection a very intriguing one. As such, I thank you for seeing more than the surface of this photo.

Different Crop

The crop works well too, although it puts much more emphasis on the sky/clouds; you may or may not want this. The foreground in the original is not too exciting, especially in that it contains some nondescript bare earth. I'd go for something in between: the same amount of foreground as the original, but something that grabs the viewer's interest a bit more.

Thanks Stephen.

 

I have actually had both images (not actually crops but sequential frames) in my portfolio for some time and just decided to place this one here to consolidate them.

 

Neither image is really working here on PN. I recognize that.

 

However, I have printed these both at 16x24 and the detail makes this work nicely at that size. For example, the two trees here look like black blobs whereas at that size one can see that they actually have detail and variation of tone. Similarly the background hills have a remarkable clarity and detail for being so distant.

 

I prefer the second framing. There is a man-made wire fence that can be seen in this one that the tighter frame removes.