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Tuan Le wrote:
Very nice and well done series, particularly 1 and 2. I would like 3 more if there were more stars and no headlights. Just got back from camping out for 2 nights at JTNP and always enjoy my time there no matter what the season.
Thank you. The headlights were an intended part of the shot, of the scene in #3. While it's not wilderness, it's a representation of that portion of our desert, and the motion of our world through it. natural and human.
Heinz H wrote:
#2 for me. I like the feeling of heat in that picture. Great DOF and composition.
Heinz
Thank you, it was only about 55F at the time, but sure looks warmer than that, eh?
JimFox wrote:
Hey Peter,
#1 is a really cool looking shot, and I like how you worked the sun in #2. With #3, I really like the cloud movement in the sky, but I think all the headlights on the road are a big distraction. Perhaps blend in on the bottom a shorter length shot where there are no car lights?
How were the blooms. I think the Joshua Trees had been blooming, anything else?
Jim
Thanks Jim, see my first post regarding shot #3. It would feel disingenuous to me to alter the shot that significantly, and I like it for what it represents. I'm sure there will be plenty of opportunities in the future to capture a more "pure" cloud-motion in the desert type shot if I so desire.
The blooms were nice, the Joshua Trees were blooming, as were a number of other plants in the lower, Colorado Desert section of the park. I'm not sure that I like any of those type shots that I ended up with, but that's often how I feel immediately after a trip, and perhaps they will look better too me given a little time.
kwalsh wrote:
I don't know, something just didn't click with me. I love the desert, lived in the Mojave and Sonoran deserts for seven years and I still visit them every chance I can get despite living on the opposite side of the country now. Maybe I was just too jaded and "seen it all before" by the time I made a dedicated trip there. As to its name sake (Joshua Trees) I couldn't help thinking "Cima Dome's are bigger and denser, and Lee Flat is more extensive as well". The boulders, "Alabama Hills are way more impressive". As for potential blooms, "Anza Borrego will trump this". In the back of my head "where are the playas and the dunes?" Something just made me utterly fail to appreciate it for what it is on its own, which undoubtedly was my loss! And bizarre too - when I lived in the NW Mojave I reveled in visiting off the beaten path areas that most would probably consider "featureless". Not sure what went wrong on my visit...
Ken
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I see what you're saying, and certainly your personal experience had a lot to do with flavoring your view of the park. I haven't had nearly the exposure to that particular type of desert area, so there was a bit more newness for me.
douter wrote:
Love the pastels in the first and the sense of motion in the last.
Douglas
Thanks Douglas!
BenV wrote:
2 and 3 I really like, the first one IMO could do without the distracting cactus.
Thank you. Which areas of the cactus in #1 do you find distracting? Or is it all the cactus, just distracting from the sunset? I was in that area to shoot the cactus itself specifically, so it was an integral part of my vision for that scene.
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