A few desert shots

Cornflake

From my outing last weekend. Criticism is always welcome.

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Stumblebum

Nice set Don! Wouldn't expect anything different from you!

#3 is special!

Love these from rest of your collection.....

http://cornflakeaz.smugmug.com/Landscapes/Lower-Sonoran-Desert/i-LPd8tW7/A

http://cornflakeaz.smugmug.com/Landscapes/Lower-Sonoran-Desert/i-s27vnpV/A

http://cornflakeaz.smugmug.com/Landscapes/Lower-Sonoran-Desert/i-jf5CVgv/A

http://cornflakeaz.smugmug.com/Landscapes/Lower-Sonoran-Desert/i-zTBbTpP/A

Cornflake

Stumblebum, thanks, and thanks for looking at my collection!

christinaroberts, thank you. I had a difficult time with the third one so I'm pleased that you like it.

Earache

I usually find a reason to appreciate B&W first... but I'm really liking the color ones this time Don.
The moment you captured in #1 is a wonderful time-of-day in the desert.

Cornflake

Thanks, Eric. It's a sufficiently wonderful time of day to justify setting the alarm at 4:15!

Eia

#1 for sure! shows off the color and desert beautifully! bug gee; all those cholla -- did you get attacked?

Cornflake

Thanks, Eia. I've learned to be careful around cholla and--knock knock--I've never been stuck yet. There's a stand near New River that's over my head, and I'm not short, and I've been in the middle of it, barblessly.

Steve5D

That third one's damn near a wall hanger...

Cornflake

Thanks very much, Steve5D.

JC

Nicely done. Number 2 seems a little bit cluttered to my eye, but I guess you can't exactly clear some breathing room at the bottom of the frame in that kind of brush. B&W is a good call on 3, although, I would like to see the color version 2. I went into a local art shop nearby recently (I live in a 'constructed' so-called arts district), and the photographic prints for sale there were so blah and mundane and poorly executed it drove me crazy, but they were all of 'classic' southwest themes so i suppose the tourists buy them. Yours would have them beat hands down though.

Cornflake

JC, thanks for the comments and for the kind words. I agree that number 2 might be a little less busy, but you're correct that I had few options. As for number three, the clouds and the sun washed out the colors to the point that it seemed better to jettison them altogether.