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Thanks John and Sekhar!

John: There's a good topo map available online. It's nicely marked with all the features. I can send you a link to that!!

Thanks Lester! I took a color version of this as well, but liked the B/W treatment better.

Pierre, Boeboe, John & Neil: Thanks for the kind comments!

John: You don't need a 4WD. The Bisti badlands can be reached from Farmington via NM 371 for ~36mi and then a gravel road for < 2mi. Then it's a hike into the badlands. One needs to go at least 2mi in to see the interesting stuff. The main challenge is not the drive, but navigating oneself to points of interest. There are no marked trails and route-finding is difficult. That being said, one can wander away and come across many unusual formations. I had a handheld GPS and some co-ordinates that I pulled off from a German blog. I can email the links if you wish. It was a lot of fun hiking in there!

Whoa, beautiful light and clouds. Great shot!

Great color and good composition!

Can empathize with your story. Often the best laid plans don't pan out and a bit of improvisation is necessary. It all came out well in the end here! 

Another dusk shot at Bisti badlands, New Mexico taken at the "Cracked

Eggs"/ "The Alien Hatchery" area. Critique/comments appreciated.

Thanks for looking!

Congrats to Marc "again" for the POW!
This shot is definitely beautiful and unique in it's own way! Of course, Marc has many many more eye-popping pics as anybody can see from his gallery.
The "Elves" indeed picked a good pic as POW, as it has attracted lots of "different" comments and discussion....... They're mischievous indeed!

Well done! Nice light and composition!

Good shot! The white blown out regions at the top (left and right corners) are a bit distracting, but I see you couldn't avoid them as you wanted to get the converging lines of the roof. Just wondering how it'd look in a vertical composition....

Wonderful composition, again! The design on the walls looks like that of a circuit board!

Hello P & G :-)

Very well composed & nicely done, Lovely shot!

Nice shot, Sandeep! I'm sure this would have worked in portrait too!

Thanks Boeboe! Got lucky with the clouds and light.... right place, right time I guess!

Hi Gregory,

I tiptoed into your folder following your comment on my pic and was drawn to the water drop images. I like this one the most! It's very well composed and the the little sphere atop the cone is wonderful. Congrats!

Thanks Gregory, The Tokina 11-16 is a sharp lens... absolutely love it!

Thanks John! Totally agree with you! Indeed it was a tough call admiring the views while keeping my eyes on the icy road.

Thanks Wanghan! It was taken at "Ah-shi-sle-pah" Wilderness study area, not too far from Bisti. It's a bit remote, but well worth the effort.

Last light on Henry Mountains in Utah. Taken from a view point on

Scenic-byway #12. Critique/comments requested. Thanks!

Hoodoos in the Ah-shi-sle-pah wilderness in New Mexico. Critiques/

comments requested. Thanks!

Thanks for the kind comments guys!

Nice shot of the receding wave. Love the composition too! It just looks a bit over-sharpened, but otherwise a very fine pic.

Beautiful light, an amazing sky and the graceful pueblo make this a wonderful image. Congrats! I'd have included a little more of the sky at the top, but that's just nitpicking.

The Nagoya TV tower may not be as tall and graceful as the Eiffel

tower, but certainly looks interesting from this perspective.

Critiques/ comments requested. Thanks!

Nice composition. The small pond, tree, fog and the moon all compliment each other rather nicely to yield a great image. IMHO, it'd have been even better if you could include the pond in its entirety.... but this is just nitpicking! Congrats!

Amazing shot! Love the colors and the foreground.... goes well with the mountains in the background. Congrats!