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Here is another image from the VLA site, it does have items in it for scale, the pickup truck and the crane on the right, but it's not nearly as nice a photo in my opinion.. but it does show scale...

http://www.humanhighway.net/albums/VLA/vla2.sized.jpg

Nice layering of the foothills. Maybe crop about the line of the plane and get rid of the wires?

I really like this photo. Maybe a bit more contrast though would be nice.

feels incomplete. washed out and out of focus as well.

I agree, in fact, most of my photo's I took there feel that way. @ the time it seemed like a good idea, stay low, get long lines in the sand. I wish I would have taken some with just a sliver of sky... Maybe someday I will go back and try again!

White Sands New Mexico near sunset.

I am never quite satisfied with the photo's I take of very large

objects; part of the thrill of seeing something like this in person is

gaining an appreciation for the scale of things that humans can build.

In the middle of the desert, without any surrounding items for scale

its easy to loose the grandure. A baseball diamond can fit in the

dish, it weighs 220 tons, the next one in the shot is nearly a mile in

distance, and the whole array covers an area the size of Washington DC.

What can I do in a situation like this to better portray the awsome

size of the subject?

I agree with the last comment as well. This photo captures the expanse of the SW well. The colors and shadows are rich and the rainbow is just a nice touch. nice shot.

Sunset with a million small shadows. Critiques desired.

Ouch, a microsoft desktop. I don't know how to respond to that.

Critiques and suggestions please on improving shots like this made @ dusk.

Great purple and gold. Nice DOF. Excellent.

White Sands New Mexico, it's amazing that life can exist in such a

shifting, blowing, and strange landscape.

 

Critiques desired.

Critiquers welcome.

Very Nice. I have spent many hours chasing AZ storms for that perfect lightning shot. This one is simply awsome.

Nice original, and nice working of the photo. Very original. Thank you.

We don't get fall like that in the desert of arizona that is for sure. Excellent.

The boldness of the bolts in this photo is outstanding. As a fellow Arizonan who loves to photograph lightning I applaud this photo.

I think leveling the horizon, or the vertical walls -- it feels as if it leans down and to the left...

vast. excellent.

Besides being blurry, it's in my opinion oriented sideways... turned 90 CW it would look less disoriented.

ack... it's going to suck the breath out of that baby!! (just kidding -- we have cat's and we used to here that wives tail from time to time) -- I love the image, and love your style. Thank you.

Makes me thirsty....

It seems just a little flat -- maybe a bit more contrast?

My first thought, seeing it small, was "Oh Wow"

and it is an oh wow shot, but opening it larger my eyes were drawn down by the lines, and it seems like maybe it's crpped just a little to short -- needs a bit more ground -- the man standing on the far left is somewhat cut off, and the horizon line formed in the distant arch is very low to the bottom of the photo. It's still a wonderfully lit, and well conceived photo. Good contrast, good tone.

I love it.. but this, and some of your others seem a little lacking in contrast... no distinct blacks or distinct whites. I love this photo though.