On 7/16/05, Bruce Dayton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > There is a big portion of Monument Valley that you cannot go into > without a guide and good 4 wheel drive for the sand. For this trip, I > was able to arrange a private tour for our group in an air-conditioned > 4-wheel drive van. We were able to start the tour in the early > afternoon and end at sundown. It made it really nice because we could > stop anytime we wanted for as long as we wanted to take pictures and > got to see the part that is missed by many. It turns out that there > are a bunch of arches in Monument Valley. > > Pentax *istD, DA 16-45/4, Handheld, polarizer > ISO 400, 1/350 sec @ f/9.5 > Converted from Raw using Capture One LE > > http://www.daytonphoto.com/PAW/monumentvalley_0354.htm > > Comments welcome
Quite beautiful, Bruce. I love the detail in the shaded rock-face, the sunlit tree in the foreground, the way the base of the rock mimics the left side of the tree (or is that vice-versa? <g>), and draws our eyes right to the hole in the arch. Spectacular composition! cheers, frank -- "Sharpness is a bourgeois concept." -Henri Cartier-Bresson
