Hi Marnie Again, this shows the theme of your project well and the composition is excellent.
The only quibble is that the light seems a bit flat - any possibility of re-doing it late or early in the day? Some shadowing on the hills would probably make it more pleasing photographically. Cheers Brian ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ Brian Walters Western Sydney Australia Quoting [EMAIL PROTECTED]: > Another picture, same series... > > > The second peak (left) is Mt. Diablo. Or rather one of Mt. > Diablo's peaks. > In addition to being an interesting mountain, Mt. Diablo is also a > California > State Park. > > On the right you can see a gouged area in the hill that was caused > by coal > strip mining. Once upon a time there was coal mining in the Mt. > Diablo area, > until about the 1920's when sand mining took over. It is now > museum material. > That area is directly behind Black Diamond Mines. It probably was > a part of > Black Diamond Mines, or else it was a completely different mine. > Mt. Diablo > State Park acquired the remains of some coal mines in the 1970's. > So I suspect > that hillside is also the boundary of Mt. Diablo State Park. > > > I think this is a pleasing little pastoral picture of Mt. Diablo. > ;-) > > http://members.aol.com/eactivist/PAWS/pages/diablo.htm > > Comments welcome. > > Marnie aka Doe > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Finally - A spam blocker that actually works. http://www.bluebottle.com -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net

