The Cazneaux Tree, and Wilpena Pound

The tree was made famous the the photographer whose name it now

wears - Cazneaux. Wilpena Pound is the major landmark in this part of

the Flinders Ranges - looks very impressive on satellite images,

actually. Thanks for viewing, Gunnar

I really like the light and composition, but the very uneven depth of the blue sky from left to right (likely the result of a polarizing filter on a relatively wide lens) is quite distracting to me. To many people, it doesn't seem to matter.

Stephen, thanks for the critique. I agree with your comment, the unevenly polarised sky bothers me, too. I wish I knew how to avoid that - using two polarisers perhaps?

The only solution here is to not use a polarizing filter. I never use one on a wide angle where the sky will be showing. Instead, I reserve the polarizer and wide angle for use in the interior of a wet forest to cut down on light reflections from foliage. If you want to deepen the blue of the sky on a wide-angle shot, I would do it in post-processing. On the other hand, there is usually no problem when using a polarizer on a telephoto lens, because that lens takes in only a small slice of the sky (the amount of polarized light in the sky varies in relation to the angle of the sun; it's greatest at 90 degrees to the sun, and varies as the camera points toward or more directly away from the sun).