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Janusc,

Thanks for the feedback.

Sebastien,

Thanks for the kind words. The folks who set up the exhibit at the natural history museum deserve most of the credit.

Jeremy,

If you go to the landscape category of my site you will see the color version of the slide I took with Velvia (with bush removed). With this photo I converted to BW using the channel mixer, converted to grayscale, 8-bit, duotone and cropped. After sharpening, the sky was too grainy, so I masked the sky to reflect the pre-sharpened version. That was the only manipulation performed on the sky.

Comments appreciated.

Thanks.

I think the top of the cacti interfere too much with the clouds. If I would have positioned my self more to the left, I think I could have had a better composition.

I also agree with Jim that the horizon should have been more offset from the center.

I think there's something wrong with the composition...couldn't put my

hand on it before - but now I think I know what it is. Let me know

what you think and after comments received I'll let you know what I

think.

Thanks.

Deborah,

I agree, more depth of field would have been nice. Typically, I try to avoid blur in the foreground since it's distracting. If I would have used a flash, I could have stopped down more.