War with the Sky

Dramatic skies, illumination of the sandstorm behind the dunes and a lone Sagebrush, dying on a cracked desert playa.  Feel free to offer any critique, comments or questions.

Marc, lovely textures are there. Desert surface reminds me a raptile skin. Together with this funky perspective and dramatic sky your photo gives quite unrealistic mood. Brilliant! Regards, Mateusz

Incredible capture ... Congrats & regards.

No critique, I just really like the image. Great sky, great highlight on the mountains. Those Death Valley sand storms can be beautiful. Fantastic job!

Stunning shot, Marc! It seems it was taken on another planet! I find the composition perfect and the vignetting effect you added (I think you added in post processing) is a real bonus to concentrate te viewer's attention.

As always, no conventional images from you.

Regards, Alberto.

I'm not sure if it's my imagination but that bright area looks very slightly toned down here compared to the one on NPN, which makes it look perfect IMO. One of your best.

Magistral.

Biblical.

spectacular light and mood. excellent.

This is my favorite image from your recent travels.  Easily in your top 5 images of all time IMO!  Thanks for pushing your art to the next level and being a constant source of inspiration for me and many others!  7/7

Excellent shot, lovely tones. Master piece. 6/6. Congrats.

Stunningly beautiful photo. Everything from the color, composition and tonal range. Love the curvature of the cracks in the ground. Fantastic!

great work! actually all your work is very impressive. very well done.

Marc,

 Very dynamic image here. It has a lot of interest. I'm not going to say that this is one of your top ten (that would be too difficult to pick). I see a different comp here that is stronger, IMHO. I see this image as: cropping half the sky (exactly), then brighten up the great glow on the cracked plates and especially that dead sage. It would eliminate the attention going to that big bright spot which pulls too much of the attention away from the real story in this image, which is the fg. 

What do you think?

Aplausos, aplausos, aplausos!!!

well, what can Is ay that hasn't been said? This really is great work Marc and an inspiration to us all. compliments

Amazing!

Yess...Amazing image...how could you make it....?

Color and composition is incredible... Little fallen dry tree adds nice flavor to the image with symbolic representation...

Fantastic Veiw from Death Valley....

Bravo'

Amazing work Marc

a truly breathtaking image.

I would rate this as the photo of the year. Congratulations. Karl

Ill 2nd what Carl just said