Mesa Verde NP

rwells

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Nikonic1

Man, this country is sure a beautiful place. Well captured Randy. Thanks for sharing thumb

nightpixels

This may very well be my favorite National Park in US ever. Nice photos. Did you visit any of the cliff dwellings?

rwells

Nikonic1 wrote:

Man, this country is sure a beautiful place. Well captured Randy. Thanks for sharing thumb

Thanks for the comment Nikonic1

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nightpixels wrote:

This may very well be my favorite National Park in US ever. Nice photos. Did you visit any of the cliff dwellings?

Allen,

I found Mesa Verde NP very interesting. I normally like the Rockies, but was intrigued here. I've got it on my "visit again" list.

I did take a bunch of shots of the dwelling sites. To be quite honest, I had forgotten about the shots, so I haven't processed them yet. I had to recover them from CF cards due to a complete WD external HD crash. I didn't get all of them recovered, but I got quite a few.

Thanks for looking and commenting

nightpixels

I am with you on the "visit again" list. The Balcony House is my favorite cliff dwelling. How can I forget the steep and long ladder that we had to climb. It was very Indiana Jones-ish.

CWSkopec

Nice photos, Randy!

I was fully expecting to see the cliff dwellings, but it's refreshing to see the surrounding area. Let's you see why it would have been a nice place to call home.

dlplumer

Love the processing on that second one Randy. Beautiful country.

torags

I agree, #2 has nice early light well captured

Eia

Wow - that is beautiful. The lighting is just gorgeous.

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CWSkopec wrote:

Nice photos, Randy!

I was fully expecting to see the cliff dwellings, but it's refreshing to see the surrounding area. Let's you see why it would have been a nice place to call home.

Thanks Chris,

It's a very interesting area indeed!

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dlplumer wrote:

Love the processing on that second one Randy. Beautiful country.

Thanks Dan,

One of the two evening I was there produced one of the most spectacular sunsets that I've witnessed. The sky just exploded, like a volcano just erupted. Unfortunately, when that happened, I was taking my freezing wife back to camp. We were on the motorcycle. My heart just sank when I saw it, knowing that it would only last a minute and I couldn't get into position for a shot :cry

I did get a shot not long before the big sky explosion though:

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torags wrote:

I agree, #2 has nice early light well captured

Thanks torags!

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Eia wrote:

Wow - that is beautiful. The lighting is just gorgeous.

Thanks Eia!

redleash

Beautiful work, Randy. I love #2--I'd love it even more if you sent it to me for Christmas later this year!

So sorry you "missed" the spectacular sunset . . . but your fallback shot from before the explosion is pretty durn nice!!

Cheers,
Lauren

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redleash wrote:

Beautiful work, Randy. I love #2--I'd love it even more if you sent it to me for Christmas later this year!

So sorry you "missed" the spectacular sunset . . . but your fallback shot from before the explosion is pretty durn nice!!

Cheers,
Lauren

I didn't miss the spectacular sunset, my camera did

Thanks for the kind words, and be careful of what you ask for

Eia

rwells wrote:

Thanks Dan,

One of the two evening I was there produced one of the most spectacular sunsets that I've witnessed. The sky just exploded, like a volcano just erupted. Unfortunately, when that happened, I was taking my freezing wife back to camp. We were on the motorcycle. My heart just sank when I saw it, knowing that it would only last a minute and I couldn't get into position for a shot :cry

I did get a shot not long before the big sky explosion though:

Whoa!!! I would say this is an explosion!!! Wow, this is really dramatic.

Swartzy

rwells wrote:

Thanks Dan,

One of the two evening I was there produced one of the most spectacular sunsets that I've witnessed. The sky just exploded, like a volcano just erupted. Unfortunately, when that happened, I was taking my freezing wife back to camp. We were on the motorcycle. My heart just sank when I saw it, knowing that it would only last a minute and I couldn't get into position for a shot :cry

I did get a shot not long before the big sky explosion though:

OOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH BABY!!!!! This one jacks my slacks....this must go on the wall Randy!

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Eia wrote:

Whoa!!! I would say this is an explosion!!! Wow, this is really dramatic.

Thanks Eia,

I'm glad you like it!

rwells

Swartzy wrote:

OOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH BABY!!!!! This one jacks my slacks....this must go on the wall Randy!

Your probably right Dave,

I might just break down and make this the first of my work to ever go on my own wall. I can never decide...

black mamba

Nicely done, Randy. I've really got to book more time out in that neck of the woods. That exploding sunset shot is purely spectacular. If that doesn't hit your wall, something is wrong with you. I can't imagine what the one you didn't shoot must have looked like.

Tom

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black mamba wrote:

Nicely done, Randy. I've really got to book more time out in that neck of the woods. That exploding sunset shot is purely spectacular. If that doesn't hit your wall, something is wrong with you. I can't imagine what the one you didn't shoot must have looked like.

Tom

Thanks Tom,

I hear ya' about getting more time out shooting in interesting places.

dlplumer

rwells wrote:

Thanks Dan,

One of the two evening I was there produced one of the most spectacular sunsets that I've witnessed. The sky just exploded, like a volcano just erupted. Unfortunately, when that happened, I was taking my freezing wife back to camp. We were on the motorcycle. My heart just sank when I saw it, knowing that it would only last a minute and I couldn't get into position for a shot :cry

I did get a shot not long before the big sky explosion though:

Dogdots

rwells wrote:

WOW......................Totally AWESOME

redleash

Thanks for the reminder, Randy--it's not just getting the shot with the camera. It's also about enjoying "the shot" by just looking at it!

I'm not afraid of getting things I ask for . . . it's happened to me a lot!