coyote buttes 3

As usual, I have to nitpick on something... which is usually difficult since your shots are always of an overwhelming beauty. This time I think I would do without the rest of the valley at the horizon. The reason is that this is a story of textures and warm/cold colours which blend into each other, with a sort of rotor effect. Sky-cold+fluffy-textured clouds, go toward regular texture and the warm colours of the right-hand-side stone (or the left-hand side one if you think counter-clockwise). Then we get again cold colours in the reflection of the sky, and a justaposed texture in the ripples of the water. The axis of the wavelets is orthogonal to the one of the stone, so lot's of rythm there. Off we go in the "rotor-effect" with the lines which start from the lower-left side and pull you into the stone to deliver you back in the sky.

All this praise told, you can see that there is no space for the horison (which is also a bit "hot" in colours)

Your opinion?

Very cool, and unusual. One thing I want to complain aboot though: the piece of landscape that is visible where rock-walls interact. To me it is distracting, and doesn't serve any purpose in the photo. Personally I think it would look better without it.

That is the only thing. Great photo!!

thank you all for your comments.

salvatore and ramunas, i see your point, the picture would be purer without the horizon, and i could have gotten it easily just by lowering my position (and could even now just erase it, kind of cheeting, though), but i was fascinated by the contrast between the shaded foreground and the sunlit background. but, as a i said, i think you are right.

michael, i agree. these pictures were taken a year ago, i had them in the critique forum and all of them, particularly this one, were greeted enthusiastically. a week ago, my entire folder on american south west was deleted accidentally and all i doing now is to reload some of them and put a few again to forum, those of which i think, are sufficiently unconventional to still arouse interest after a year of flooding photonet with picturers of the wave

Great shot. My only wish there was no wind to reflect the clouds. Did you use polarizer on this one?

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Excellent composition, I love how the lake repeats itself in the sky. cheers Jana

just, excelent :)