On 8/6/05, Joseph Tainter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > A ruin for Shel and the Southwest for Bruce: > > http://www.fotocommunity.com/pc/pc/cat/2646/display/3677212 > > Of course everyone else is welcome to look and comment. > > I am pretty pleased, especially considering that I shoot very little > B/W. The photo was taken about two weeks ago. > > I had shot this ruin before: > > http://pug.komkon.org/01jul/Tainter.html > > ...and knew that at sunset, with summer tunderstorms building, there > would be a chance for some good images. But the National Park Service > has moved the parking lot much further from this ruin, and clouds were > threatening to obscure the sun. I hoofed it as quickly as I could, got > off a few shots, then the sun was obscured by clouds. But I waited, and > about 20 minutes later the sun reappeared for a few. >
Spectacular!! That red filter really makes the sky dramatic - or to put it another way, it allowed you to capture the dramatic sky. I love this shot. cheers, frank -- "Sharpness is a bourgeois concept." -Henri Cartier-Bresson
