Sunset

wfellerwfeller Registered Users Posts: 2,625 Major grins
edited March 25, 2009 in Landscapes
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  • ashbyashby Registered Users Posts: 72 Big grins
    edited March 22, 2009
    WOW! Just WOW!
  • Awais YaqubAwais Yaqub Registered Users Posts: 10,572 Major grins
    edited March 22, 2009
    clap.gif Amazing photograph !
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  • EiaEia Registered Users Posts: 3,627 Major grins
    edited March 22, 2009
    Ahhhh WOW is right! Got a story with this? :D
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  • hschlessphotohschlessphoto Registered Users Posts: 207 Major grins
    edited March 22, 2009
    amazing! settings? stories? PP?
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  • jeffmeyersjeffmeyers Registered Users Posts: 1,535 Major grins
    edited March 22, 2009
    This is cool; but the closer I look I wonder if the foreground is not over saturated. It looks like the saturation has been pushed just a little too far.
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  • wfellerwfeller Registered Users Posts: 2,625 Major grins
    edited March 23, 2009
    Thank you everyone!

    No story per se, other than I had attended a minerology workshop and field trip. One of the speakers had an emergency and couldn't make it, so one of the authors of Color and light in nature, David K. Lynch, filled in with a talk about his book. Very impressive, and I was certainly thinking about his talk when I pulled off the freeway to take a break and take in the sunset.

    I took this shot maybe 10-15 minutes after this one of Bell Mountain.

    I took down the saturation some and reposted the edit.
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  • dseidmandseidman Registered Users Posts: 824 Major grins
    edited March 23, 2009
    Incredible colors!
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  • MilanMilan Registered Users Posts: 166 Major grins
    edited March 23, 2009
    Very nice! thumb.gif
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  • wfellerwfeller Registered Users Posts: 2,625 Major grins
    edited March 24, 2009
    dseidman wrote:
    Incredible colors!

    Thanks.
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  • wfellerwfeller Registered Users Posts: 2,625 Major grins
    edited March 24, 2009
    Milan wrote:
    Very nice! thumb.gif

    Thank you.
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  • hawkeye978hawkeye978 Registered Users Posts: 1,218 Major grins
    edited March 24, 2009
    All I can do is add to what the others have said. Absolutely beautiful!bowdown.gif
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  • lispottlispott Registered Users Posts: 101 Major grins
    edited March 24, 2009
    Absolutely beautiful. Love it. L
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  • wfellerwfeller Registered Users Posts: 2,625 Major grins
    edited March 25, 2009
    hawkeye978 wrote:
    All I can do is add to what the others have said. Absolutely beautiful!bowdown.gif

    Thank you Tom. I appreciate it.
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  • wfellerwfeller Registered Users Posts: 2,625 Major grins
    edited March 25, 2009
    lispott wrote:
    Absolutely beautiful. Love it. L

    Thanks!
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  • Mike JMike J Registered Users Posts: 1,029 Major grins
    edited March 25, 2009
    I do like the colors but the horizon seems to really slope to the right.
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  • TravisTravis Registered Users Posts: 1,472 Major grins
    edited March 25, 2009
    Stunning image thumb.gif but is it just me or is there a slight tilt to it? headscratch.gif
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  • wfellerwfeller Registered Users Posts: 2,625 Major grins
    edited March 25, 2009
    Mike J wrote:
    I do like the colors but the horizon seems to really slope to the right.

    Thanks, but no, the horizon is dead on (see below)
    Travis wrote:
    Stunning image thumb.gif but is it just me or is there a slight tilt to it? headscratch.gif

    Thank you.

    As I mentioned, the horizon is the way it is. To the left is Bell Mountain, abruptly rising out of the desert floor with a sweeping bajada at it's base, extending all the way down to the Mojave River (on the right a mile or so away). The close range of mountains is an extension of the plutonic (I think) formation that Bell Mountain is made up of. The far range is the San Bernardino Mountains. These mountains were pushed up in the last 8-14 million years ago by the San Andreas fault. When these mountains rose, they pushed the slope of the Mojave River in the opposite direction while forming the watershed for the Mojave. While the San Bernardino Mountains (and the San Gabriel Mountains further to the right) were busy growing, the Cajon Pass cut a canyon through the rift maintaining water flow to the sea (The Mojave River empties into the desert center, not the ocean). Anyway, the predominant slope to the right is natural and accurate in this shot.

    Commercially, I suppose this shot is unacceptable. To a geologist, that understands the region it's probably pretty good. I like the bursage and creosote in the little bit of light. I've lived in the area so long what others perceive as strange looks perfectly normal to me.

    It might look crooked, but it's not. For any of the weekly Las Vegas / Los Angeles migrators, this can be easily observed from the 15 freeway, heading south toward LA at Dale Evans Parkway.
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