Death Valley
Sand Dunes near the entrance of Death Valley California
This photo was taken on August 5, 2005 using a Canon EOS 10D.
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cmrowell, King'76, 7378, inklake, and 26 other people added this photo to their favorites.
noveltywearsoff [deleted] (79 months ago | reply)
Wow.
cmrowell (79 months ago | reply)
Gotta love dead trees. Amazing sky, too.
altjeringa (79 months ago | reply)
beautiful shot. great light.
TruuBlooo [deleted] (77 months ago | reply)
super...looks almost cg!
inklake (75 months ago | reply)
I love the sand and sky colours together. A fave.
Berezin the Bear (75 months ago | reply)
I need to go back, I love Death Valley
adritzz (75 months ago | reply)
Oh wow! very good shot. Quite dramatic and twisted. I really like the composition.
-voted as "saveme" (from Deleteme! group)
EricBartholemew (75 months ago | reply)
Calling out for an HDR treatment !
-voted as "deleteme" (from Deleteme! group)
Asad K (75 months ago | reply)
its not that engaging,
-Voted "deleteme2" (by the Delete me! Group)
beebo wallace (75 months ago | reply)
Unequivocally a marvelous picture.
saveme2
BigFrank (75 months ago | reply)
Even at the small size it feels a bit soft, and the composition, while being okay, doesn't move me particularly.
deleteme3
Berezin the Bear (75 months ago | reply)
BigFrank, do you feel like I need to run more USM on it?
AsadK, what would make it more engaging for you?
moved to http://flickr.com/gebhartdekoekkoek (75 months ago | reply)
thats cool and worth a save! dunes rocks. i just posted a dunes related photo to deleteme too. ;)
The RedLion (75 months ago | reply)
This is great. and dj12lee, i thought it was an HDR. If it's not i'm even more impressed at the detail in the foreground and sky.
-voted as "saveme4" (from the Delete me! group)
Bukutgirl (75 months ago | reply)
for sooooo many reasons!
deleteme3
mad_airbrush (75 months ago | reply)
awesome sky, i like it.
-Voted "saveme4" (by the Delete me! Group)
Oliver Lavery (75 months ago | reply)
Amazing exposure of both the sky and the ground. Like this one.
-voted as "saveme5" (from Deleteme! group)
DaniCast (75 months ago | reply)
I've seen better. The composition is not so good.
-Voted "deleteme4" (by the Delete me! Group)
jasohill (75 months ago | reply)
Death photo more likely.
-voted as "deleteme5" (from Deleteme! group)
bikeracer (75 months ago | reply)
this might be better if you removed the trees, sand, and clouds.
-voted as "deleteme6" (from Deleteme! group)
Berezin the Bear (75 months ago | reply)
Wow... Thanks Bikeracer. Haha
BigFrank (75 months ago | reply)
Berezin - about the USM, it *might* help, but the fact that you said run *more* USM implies you already did some... I think this could take more, but there's only so far you can go before other things start to go.
quicklykissme (75 months ago | reply)
I like it, and I'm saving it. But a caveat: it's baaaaarely special enough. Try something different next time so it's a more grabbing shot.
-voted as "saveme6" (from Deleteme! group)
aprevite (75 months ago | reply)
Focus seems soft. I think you should have zoomed out more or taken a few steps back
-voted as "deleteme7" (from the Delete me! group)
laNDN (75 months ago | reply)
Like the colors and the sky! I like 7/8ths of the shot.
The composition wads up on the far left. Bad, bad stumps!
-voted as "deleteme8" (from the Delete me! group)
ken mccown (75 months ago | reply)
I'm with aprevit
mouton.rebelle (75 months ago | reply)
Contrasts and colors are great and make this shot work for me. Creepy.
-voted as "saveme7" (from the Delete me! group)
durhamyankee (75 months ago | reply)
I'm not gonna boot it. I like the tree against the sky, it sets an interesting mood.
-Voted "saveme7" (by the Delete me! Group)
Jorge Alberto Mendoza (75 months ago | reply)
I like it
-voted as "saveme 8"
Lawrence Whittemore (75 months ago | reply)
Thats really cool and I'm glad the two main trees don't overlap and the sky looks great!
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Fred [feukiou] [deleted] (75 months ago | reply)
no thanks.
-voted as "deleteme10" (from the Delete me! group)
Bukutgirl (75 months ago | reply)
Re request for explanation: - I think the composition is crowded (ie there's not enough room around the parts that are nice - main tree in the middle and the roots - should have left more sand) - and I think the left side seems almost arbitrarily cropped - you didn't make the crop make any sense out of the jumble of stuff going on there - the light is also relatively flat - the focus quality is medium, and I don't know that color added anything to this shot - there's already so many confusing variables here that I think a sepia treatment or a black and white would have served you better interms of bringing out the strengths of the shot ( because there are several there)...
I've also seen a ton of shots like this - nature photography wise - and while this is okay - it's not an amazing addition to the genere - nothings been reinterpreted, I don't get anything personal about YOU from seeing it - does that make sense?
probably way more information than you were asking for.
I actually like your stuff with the wooden doll quite a bit!
eeblet (75 months ago | reply)
I think some of these haters have never been walking in the desert, something I do in CA, NM, and TX.... It's hard to capture that landscape accurately, and I feel like this photo does it. Good work!
inklake (75 months ago | reply)
Yep. I do too. Excellent photo!
Crashless (72 months ago | reply)
What a cool photograph. I love the composition and lighting. Great capture!
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SF Lights [deleted] (53 months ago | reply)
Hi, we'd like to have your photo added to the group Almost!!.
(For photos with eight or nine saves that didn't make the safe - We will be holding weekly contests for the best not-good-enough photo as well.)