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Beautiful shot of this beuatiful place.

Like the little jumping fingure very much, because it's a good reference for the greatness of the rocks/mountains

Colors and light are beautiful aswell, thanks for sharing!

extremely wonderful

 . . . "Brett's comment is one of the sad side-effects of the digital age, "  . . . as commented by Stephen.  

I'm  agree  hundred  pro cent  with him. To ad  more to it,  it  is  not  a point in  the finished  image, how  it  was created,  the  point is,  how  natural,  in every way, proportion, perspective  distortion, shade and  color  matching the added  part,  and  the  finished  image  has  some  artistic  merit, a message, a mood, to express  something, . . . has a good  content.  Here  the  sky is  not  matched  with the  rest of  the  image.  The upper right  corner a very visible  white  line  running all to the edge, between the sky  and the red rocks. It is  absolutely normal  and  constructive  if  you  manipulate your  image, ad  something to it,  or  move  some  part of it  or  even  to distort to the  desired effect.  You  are  the  artist  and  the canvas  is  yours, and  you  manipulate the  paint and the canvas  as  you desire, if  it  going to improve  you image  or  improve the message, mood  and so on.  I hate  to talk  technicality here, I hate  pixel pipping, corner investigating  and all those  Technocrat  stupid  things  in art and  photography as an art. As I noted, in this  image, first  the  sky  didn't  matched  in shade  the  main subject  and  the artifacts  as I all ready  mentioned  is  faulty. I attaching a part of  the upper corner  of  the image  to shown, this  white  line  not  supposed  to be  there.  And. . .  You don't needed  the  person there,  in the middle, posing a jump  at all, besides, it  is  also  almost artificial in the image. A pice of  rock on the foreground,  my,  would do  more  for  this  image. The  composition is  also  to  symmetric,  and  I would ad  more  to the foreground  and lees  sky. IMHO  of course. I intended  this  comment  in a good  fate,  as a constructive comment.

And please excuse  my English

Regards;  Bela

love it.  I went there several times but always with the solid blue sky.  So I know it is real.  But how could we make the sky light blue?  Thanks.

"Brett's comment is one of the sad side-effects of the digital age"

Sorry, but this kind of heavy handed post processing is the sad side-effect, not questioning it

You could try it without that man in the middle, and with better light, at sunrise, or sunset, it would be better. This is only an opinion. But the details are nice, and that jump figures freedom for me. Great idea.

Excellent shot all around -color, composition, and adding a unique touch to the well recognized area.

How did you manage to get there to photograph???  I tried to go in May but had no luck.  The lottery system seems quite daunting!