Monument in the Fog

Gallery: LandscapePosted April 16, 2013367 views7 comments

Just as the sun was coming up, fog started to rise off of the North Plate River and obscure the Scottsbluff National Monument. The sun caused some very nice colors in the fog. Mostly the monument was completely obscured, but occasionally a little bit of it would appear.

Canon 40D
Sigma 70-300
manual
Shutter 1/125
Aperture f11
ISO 100
300mm
Tripod and shutter release
Cropped to 75% of original
Levels and curves, sharpening & noise reduction in PSE9

Comments

7 comments

Comment posted by Nancy Lea Sandy on April 16, 2013 at 6:21 PM

This one is delicious. The light, the color graduation and the muted shapes of the bluff are all fine. Very nicely done

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Comment posted by Balan Vinod on April 16, 2013 at 10:48 PM

Richard ..beautiful piece of art ..well seen and captured

Balan Vinod

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Comment posted by Ed Lowe on April 17, 2013 at 9:22 AM

This is simply fantastic, Richard. I love the pastels along with the sublime mood created with the fog. I could also see this working as a vertical.

Ed

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Comment posted by Bill Reid on April 17, 2013 at 9:27 AM

Really great pastel colors Richard. Nice mood and I like the simplicity. Really nice.

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Comment posted by Scott Fricke on April 17, 2013 at 1:05 PM

Wonderful, subtle image Richard. I like the hint of the butte and the hill on the right to give the scene a bit of mystery.

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Comment posted by Jorne de Bruin on April 18, 2013 at 9:04 AM

Very cool Richard, I love these simplistic images with subtle tones and few elements. Well shot!

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Comment posted by Mark Seaver on April 19, 2013 at 11:30 AM

Sumptuous color and wonderful mystery, Richard. I think that cropping most of the ridge on the right would add to the mystery, but this is fine as presented.

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