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Moosedog Tower at the Indian Cove campground, Joshua Tree National

Park, CA.

Nice contrast. While the whispy clouds are a nice contrast to the jagged rock, if you are going to use this much of the sky I'd rather see some big pretty clouds floating around. Otherwise crop of a portion of the top or shoot it in landscape instead of portrait. The rock formation is very interesting.

Tony: Thank you for your comment. I too liked the clouds in this shot and I do actually have this shot in landscape just to see the difference once printed.

I think the reson I like the vertical shot better is because some of the rocks seem to get a little too busy and contrasty with all the shadows when in landscape.

I think you may be correct in your reasoning for the portrait. That was a good choice, but I like the clouds in the landscape better. How would it be to crop the landscape to match the portrait and take advantage of the (IMO) better clouds? That might leave the sky TOO full of clouds. Still a great shot.

I like this better in the verticle format. The swooping clouds give height to the mountains.