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Photo posted by gary phillips in the Landscape gallery on 07/06/18 at 12:54 am EST
Registered on 10/24/13, 185 Posts, 4136 Comments
Post last edited by Donna Erhardt on 07/13/18 at 10:54 am EST
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Comment posted by Aaron Feinberg on 07/06/18 at 05:08 am EST
Registered on 10/26/09, 399 Posts, 2789 Comments
Pretty badass. All the zones!
aF
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Comment posted by scott lanz on 07/06/18 at 07:31 am EST
Registered on 11/14/03, 840 Posts, 12902 Comments
Awesome image, Gary. Love the shapes and tones. 
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scott lanz
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Comment posted by Paula LeVay on 07/06/18 at 10:34 am EST
Registered on 07/29/16, 66 Posts, 270 Comments
Masterful in its simplicity and abstract effect, I'll remember the impact of this image on me, Gary, as I try to advance my own vision in landscape photography. It's one of your best!
Since you mentioned using a bungee cord, I have to ask the question. What are you using to attach to the other end of the bungee cord? I've seen pics of backpacks and gallon jugs of water hanging from a tripod hook, but not bungees.
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Paula Levay
Beach City, Texas
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Comment posted by Harry Lichtman on 07/06/18 at 10:44 am EST
Registered on 09/17/10, 304 Posts, 3507 Comments
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Beautiful tones and like the triangular point of focus. I have regularly hung my camera bag or a plastic bag with a rock in it over my lens to steady it at 600mm. Works very well with wind or to dampen vibrations. This looks like a similar shot that I have seen with a rock or boulder highlighted. Not sure the same location, but there is something familiar about it.
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Comment posted by gary phillips on 07/06/18 at 11:00 am EST
Registered on 10/24/13, 185 Posts, 4136 Comments
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Thanks for the nice comments. Paula, I should have mentioned that you stretch the bungee with as much tension as you can and stand on the other end. Seemed to work well.
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Comment posted by Mark Seaver on 07/06/18 at 11:27 am EST
Registered on 01/23/11, 1103 Posts, 17270 Comments
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Gary, the clarity is great and it lets the triangles of the larger ridges really shine. The spot of sun on the lower section adds well. It's an awesome landscape.
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Mark Seaver
Burtonsville, MD & Emigrant, MT
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Comment posted by Igor Doncov on 07/06/18 at 12:08 pm EST
Registered on 11/22/14, 189 Posts, 2733 Comments
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One of your best, if not your best, ever. Congratulations. It's a subject you've worked on for quite a while but this is the culmination of all that work. Perhaps it's the long lens that made this possible. There is wonderful balance to this image. First the vertical repetition, then angular repetition, and below the repeated mounds - all done with different tonal variation. There's also a graphic quality that I find very appealing. But, actually this appeals to me best as an abstract - a collection of shapes that have such harmony. Looks like a winner to me.
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Comment posted by Marylynne Diggs on 07/06/18 at 12:22 pm EST
Registered on 12/14/10, 122 Posts, 1034 Comments
Hi Gary,
This is lovely. I am really enjoying the simplicity of the composition and the sporadic outcroppings in the larger view. As for your bungee strategy—“stretch the bungee and stand in the other end”—I would not trust my short term memory. I can see myself stepping off, and ZAP, there goes the end hook into the LCD! Kudos for your focus and attention to detail here. Maybe cutting off the end hook and connecting a bandana around it with a pin would make it easier to stand on and less likely to do harm on release?
Anyway, back to the image itself: fabulous!
ML
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Comment posted by Harley Goldman on 07/06/18 at 3:21 pm EST
Registered on 11/19/03, 586 Posts, 11271 Comments
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Beautiful Gary! Great range of tones and great layering of land and tone. Most excellent!!
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- John Mason
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Comment posted by Ed Lowe on 07/06/18 at 4:14 pm EST
Registered on 02/07/04, 414 Posts, 7115 Comments
Sweet lines, shapes and tones in this beautiful B&W landscape, Gary. landscape. I am thoroughly enjoying that triangular shaped land mass; very striking IMO.
Ed
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Comment posted by Preston Birdwell on 07/06/18 at 8:21 pm EST
Registered on 11/01/03, 471 Posts, 5188 Comments
Beautiful tonality and a great composition.
Nice to see you back, Gary!
-P
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Preston Birdwell
Columbia, California, USA
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Comment posted by Brian Schrayer on 07/06/18 at 8:27 pm EST
Registered on 05/28/04, 114 Posts, 2890 Comments
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The layers in this image are interesting starting with the more rounded and contoured hills in the lower part of the frame and then moving to the second layer with the dominant triangular formation to the top layer with the repetition of steep triangular formations. This image combines the best of geology and geometry! Oh, and let's not forget art! Nicely captured with great processing. I like how each layer is a different brightness as well. Nicely done!
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Brian Schrayer
Nashville, TN
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Comment posted by Ian Cameron on 07/07/18 at 05:24 am EST
Registered on 08/06/04, 1125 Posts, 3318 Comments
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Hello Gary nice repeating triangles and great texture. I use the bungee technique and have done for years. Scotland has a lot of peaty soil and a lot of high wind and rain all I do is take one of those triangular section tent pegs attach it to the hook on the other end of the bungee and push and tread the tent peg into the ground. Works well and the natural stretch of the bungee smoothly damps any vibrations.
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Comment posted by Philip Hodgkins on 07/07/18 at 3:31 pm EST
Registered on 07/24/06, 2741 Posts, 12349 Comments
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Most of what has been said I will ditto. The essential contribution of the stacked tonal layers cannot be overstressed. I wish this were mine!
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Phil Hodgkins
Savannah, Georgia
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Comment posted by Mattia Oliviero on 07/11/18 at 08:06 am EST
Registered on 08/24/16, 43 Posts, 254 Comments
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I like how you divided the frame into three parts of different gray tones. The triangle in the center of the image emerges in all its beauty. Great image, Gary.
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Comment posted by Hali Sowle on 07/13/18 at 6:35 pm EST
Registered on 01/09/08, 36 Posts, 582 Comments
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Very arresting image, the shape, the textures and all those lovely tones. I'll have to remember that technique, thanks for sharing Gary.
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Hali
Northern Rhode Island
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Comment posted by SandyRichardsBrown on 07/14/18 at 11:52 am EST
Registered on 11/24/03, 3937 Posts, 12909 Comments
Lines, shapes, and gradients are marvelous.
Congrats on the EP!
Sandy
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Brookings, Oregon (summer/fall) and Sedona, Arizona (winter/spring)
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Comment posted by Anil Rao on 07/19/18 at 8:21 pm EST
Registered on 11/15/03, 234 Posts, 4923 Comments
There is such a wonderful sense of design to the composition. It is elegant without being imposing. I also love how the varying tones has been worked into the overall presentation.
A real beauty!
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Anil Rao
Santa Clara, California
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