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Minutes before sunset, from the South end of the Dunes which though

lower seems to be the best chance for a good photo. To me the color

version was very monochrome so I converted to BW. Thanks for your

comments and ratings.

Thanks for your comments and ratings

Probably the last in this series, I'm curious how it rates compared

to the others

Subject says it all, thanks for comments/critiques

Shot with a Canon 1Ds and the new 70-300 DO lens. I don't love the lens but I am willing to hike/backpack with it whereas the 70-200 2.8IS was too heavy. I've spent more time in Photoshop on this picture than its worth, mostly as an experiment to see what I could do with a picture which in Color left a lot to be desired.

A resubmission with better highlight detail. Thanks for your ratings

and comments

The sky has a blue tint on my monitor but otherwise a very good photo

The road shown in the left is at the highest point a paved raod

reaches in Canada. Thanks for your ratings and comments

Not sure if the result is better but heres the version with better whites

Thanks for the comment, the blown out areas definitely fixable, the original (which is quite uniteresting in color) has more detail in the snow than shown here. I'll look into fixing this and will repost if the result is noticeably better.

Shot from the other side of Moraine Lake. There is a

mountaineering route up the back side. Thanks for your comments and

ratings.

Thanks I didn't notice that it wan't level, will fix in Photoshop. Will try other crops but its going to be hard to move the center without changing everything

Thanks for your comments and ratings, 16mm, f6.3

thanks for the comment, the saturation was adjusted using fred mirandas digital velvia "medium" ,otherwise pretty much as shot. As I remember it the lake's color is close to what is shown, perhaps a little more milky though.

at sunrise, perhaps a little before best light but of the series I

shot the sky was best in this one. 16mm. Thanks for your comments

and ratings.

Beautiful picture and great detail. IMO its a 6 but I rated it a seven to offset the 2/2

Another reason to stay late if you visit the Wave.

On my monitor beautiful colors and clarity, I agree with the comments about the cloning and cropping.

Beautiful texture and light, its a shame that even with the better DOF of a small frame digital the earth just above the insect to the right is out of focus. I get no sense from the picture how far that earth is.

On my monitor there is way too much blue but otherwise a great shot, you might try a BW version

Taken on the way back from the Wave, if you go there stay late, the

light is wonderful once the sun goes behind the west ridge.

Shot near the old paria movie set in Utah at Sunset. The colors in

the Chinle rock are better brought out midday but then you don't get

the shadows. Thanks for you comments/ratings.

To get to the Wave you need to get a permit from the BLM, look up Coyote Buttes on the net and you will find the site to use to get a permit, which are hard to get. The Second wave is about .3 miles South of the Wave. The BLM can provide GPS coordinates to the Wave but will not tell you how to get to the second wave. House Rock Road is in Utah near milepost 26 on US 89, about 35 miles from Page.

Beautiful color and detail, the only thing I don't like is the branch in the lower right which I'd get rid of somehow (clone, crop, rotate,transform, ...) I think this picture is way underrated.

Thanks, you may be right, I usually don't like square format pictures but maybe it works here. I have some landscape versions without the branches, I will post one for critique in a few days.