Furnace

Welcome Colin! You couldn't have joined a more talented and helpful group of photogs. Great first post! I love the light and the processing looks spot on to my eye. My preference would be to crop from the left to a 4x5 ratio. I'm not sure if you were able to take a shot of the moon with a longer lens, but IMO this would also benefit from a sightly larger moon.

Welcome!

Holy moly! Fantastic first post. It works very well for me as is. I'm not really familiar with this location but it makes quite an impact, particularly with the light and the dusting of snow. Excellent work! I read your write-up and enjoyed that too.

You're off to a hell of a great start, Colin. This is amazing. Love the composition, light and processing. Not a single nit from me. Welcome to NPN!

Welcome! Great first shot Colin. I lovethe shadows here, even though the peak is not lit up it work wonderfully. And the snow dusting sets it off. Great job.

Welcome aboard Colin. I love this shot. Your story + writing is great too. I think I read + saw this shot on Deviant Art a while back. Awesome stuff. Looking forward to seeing more.

Michael

Welcome to NPN. This is going to be hard to follow up. The light is great and the play of shadows works really well.

Fantastic view! Welcome to NPN, Colin, and what a great way to start off. I love the light on that little bush. Overall simple a superb capture.

Colin, welcome to NPN man. I always knew you'd find your way over here eventually. Great.....now we've got all four of us going to the arctic this year on the same forum! This is an absolutely wonderful composition and a well seen vantage point. Everything fits great here. There's some haloing - intentional or not, around the rocks at lower-right.

This is just to good to be true. Perfect in every way and what a wonderful first post. Welcome to NPN Colin.

Hi Colin - Welcome to NPN! This is a really cool image. I really like the composition and the light on the distant rocks adds a lot of interest. I look forward to seeing more of your work.

Beautiful light and excellent color in this, great job. Ron

Likely the best Shiprock image ever. Awesome first post. Could you maybe include a link to your website

Welcome to NPN Colin. I really enjoyed your first post. The colors, composition and lighting are all perfect. No nits from me.

Wonderful opening post, Colin! We're looking forward to many more. The
composition is great and the colors stunning.

Colin,

Welcome to NPN and the Landscape/ESS Gallery. What a grand entrance! This is simply a beautiful image. I wouldn't change a thing and can't find anything to suggest to change or critique. Oh, will start you off by giving you a bad time and asking, Why didn't you wait until the light was better and fully on the rock?

Just awesome. Now you have set a high standard for yourself. Welcome aboard and we look forward to your images and participation.

Lon

Amazing scene, very majestic. The colors work great. Welcome Colin!

Very nice, Colin.

Welcome to NPN Colin, and terrific first post. Both composition and processing look first rate. Delicious!

A fantastic first post. Great comp and light. Welcome to the forum!

Great shot and great story! Welcome to NPN.

Welcome Colin. This is a fantastic image for your first post here. Look forward to seeing more of your work.

Excellent! Such great placement of all the elements and a perfectly balanced capture of some perfect light conditions.

Awesome shot! The touch of snow takes it out of it's usual context, and at first I figured it was a location in the Andes or some exotic spot (not that the SW isn't exotic in its own right). Your blog post about it was a joy to read, and captured the excitement and frustrations of photography! Keep them coming!

Welcome, Colin. Fine first post. I've always wanted to go to Shiprock on my way to Utah, but never have. Will have to make the side trip next time I'm out that way.

Thanks everyone for the great welcome, comments, and compliments! I can already tell I am going to enjoy this community.

Joseph, I actually shot the moon at 50mm and the rest at 29mm so it is larger, but the light changed to fast that I could not change to a longer lens to further accentuate the moon's size. I also felt that the Rock itself was the focal point and didn't want a too large moon to distract. As for the 4x5 crop suggestion, I feel that the line of volcanic ridge on the left is one of the key elements leading the eye through the photo so I have to disagree about that.

Marc, great to be here! Took me a while, but I finally found the time. I agree with you that there is some slight haloing, but it is not the result of a blend as the foreground is a single exposure. I think the illusion is created by the ground reaching a steeper angle at that point and holding more snow, which lightens it coincidentally in line with the black rock. Do you think I should work to subdue that transition or leave it as it naturally was?

Tony, thanks! I will put up the website link asap! Hope things are going well for you.

Awesome scene fellow "Arctic Trip Explorer"

Sorry I did not hook up with you in your neck of the woods, just ran out of time! See you this fall

This is SO rad! My favorite part is the warm/cool contrast b/t the mountain and the sky. The snow makes this shot! It's really trippy. My only critique is that the blues in the corners look a tad oversaturated. Superb first post!

A really gorgeous shot Colin love the glow on the tower and the kiss of light on the stones.

Wow
this is awesome
i like the composition

Wow, great first post Colin! Welcome to the group!

Shiprock in winter, very unusual. Everything about this works IMO. I see no problems or haloing... Look forward to seeing more of your work.

I haven't seen something this great here in the forum in while, it's too good for the forum!! Stunner!

I don't see a halo, it's just imaginary because of the bright snow in that part of the photograph.