In the Cascades

Beautiful landscape! Great shot!

G and V

Thanks 

Sorry I didn't get back to you on this one while it was still on the critique page--I'd been planning to, but it disappeared before I got back to it. The good thing about the delay is that this made me track down your gallery, which I really, really like--you've got a lot of drop-dead-gorgeous images in there. But back to the photo--this one I like almost as much as the first lupine one I commented on. Again, the overall tone and colors are breathtaking, and the drama of the sky is wonderful. The composition is powerful, too, with the river of lupine, the path, and the middle-ground ridge tops all making the viewer's eye eventually focus on one spot. The problem is that the spot they focus us on is the road at the valley bottom, so it becomes a distraction from the pristine beauty of the Tatoosh Range and wildflowers. This might be a situation where a little bit of photoshopping (or light-rooming or elementing or affinitying, for that matter) could make a world of difference. If that small patch of road could be replaced by a bit more green hillslope, then the viewer's eye would land at the focal point (plenty of interest there anyway) and follow the ridge back up to the mountains. The nearer path isn't a problem; it helps guide the eye, and kind of places us in the photo. I do have one question about the mountaintops--did they start off that dark, or was the sky treated in such a way that the mountaintops darkened up too? If you're into editing, it might be interesting to see what they'd look like if they were a bit lighter--as it is, there's a lot of contrast in tone between the peaks and the toeslopes. Anyway, it's a really nice photo, and, as with the other, you caught some magical lighting here. I like it a lot. 

Leslie

Thanks for commenting. I actually had edited out the pathway and then i decided to leave it.  I think you are right. It is best to remove it. There were a few people that i did delete during editing.  The clouds and fog were moving in quickly and i had to play a bit with the top part of the image so the mountains especially the top were were not too obscure.  I will go back to original and play around a bit more.  Thanks again