Tale of the Dragon

Gallery: LandscapePosted May 5, 2011353 views20 comments

I came across this rock formation at Bisti Badland. It looks like a dragon laying on the ground.

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Comment posted by Wayne Jones on May 5, 2011 at 9:10 PM

Good eye to find and compose this! I recognized the dragon's head even before I noticed the title. Excellent B&W conversion creating sepatation of the "dragon" from it's habitat, and showing us the detail in the dragon's front legs clearly, but without stealing the scene. The mood of the whole scene is appropriately influenced by the stormy sky.

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Comment posted by Nick Bristol on May 5, 2011 at 9:19 PM

It does! This is really cool John. I'm with Wayne too, the sky works great with this. I too like the b/w processing and how the dragon stands out. Very interesting, and great work! like this alot.

Nick Bristol
lone Rock, WI

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Comment posted by John Fan on May 5, 2011 at 9:36 PM

Thanks, Wayne & Nick.

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Comment posted by Brian Schrayer on May 5, 2011 at 9:39 PM

Wow, that's cool. Great find here. I like the composition and this works very well in B&W. I assume that you deliberately processed this so that the surrounding landscape is dark. I think it works well here since the foreground is so strong and the viewer's focus should be on the dragon. In this case I think the processing works very well to highlight the dragon in its environment. Very creative and great vision!!

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Comment posted by Barry Ashenhurst on May 5, 2011 at 9:59 PM

Great shot John. Wish I'd taken it.

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Comment posted by Yiming Hu on May 5, 2011 at 10:11 PM

John, this is great. You have a keen eye for such an interesting picture. It is amazing that the dragon has legs too!

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Comment posted by Mark Seaver on May 5, 2011 at 10:11 PM

Very interesting find and excellent visualization. Did you dodge the dragon to make it stand out so well? The dark tone does work well with the moody sky.

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Comment posted by Marc Adamus on May 5, 2011 at 10:34 PM

Really nice catch and processing here John! Awesome!

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Comment posted by John Fan on May 5, 2011 at 11:08 PM

Thanks guys for your comments. Yes, I dodged the "dragon" so that it stands out from the environment.

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Comment posted by Cory Freeman on May 6, 2011 at 8:44 AM

this does look like a chinese dragon!! cool shot!

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Comment posted by dean hebert on May 6, 2011 at 12:18 PM

Cool shot! Amazing what we can see in rock formations!

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Comment posted by John Mumaw on May 6, 2011 at 12:25 PM

Your 'development' of this makes it one of the best I've seen from the Bisti. Nice to see a relatively unique formation, too.
Excellent work all the way around!

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Comment posted by Gary Reed on May 6, 2011 at 6:14 PM

Wow, Legs and Horns. Great Job.

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Comment posted by Aaron Feinberg on May 6, 2011 at 6:49 PM

That's freakin sweet. Nice tones and light and processing. Now where's the fire? ;)

aF

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Comment posted by James Fougère on May 6, 2011 at 7:49 PM

Very Cool

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Comment posted by Stuart Williams on May 7, 2011 at 4:07 AM

very cool - and nice processing.

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Comment posted by Tony Kuyper on May 7, 2011 at 12:18 PM

Awesome!

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Comment posted by Mark Metternich on May 7, 2011 at 12:53 PM

Wow what a composition! Very nice find and capture.

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Comment posted by Danny Laureys on May 7, 2011 at 5:15 PM

Very well seen! Great B&W Conversion.

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Comment posted by Scott Smorra on May 7, 2011 at 11:15 PM

Great title and great image. It really does look like a dragon laying on his belly on the rocks. Well done.

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