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Leslie Gulch Road
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Leslie Gulch Road

by Marylynne Diggs

Gallery: Man & NaturePosted October 17, 2013167 views3 comments
Hi Everyone,
I finally got to checkout Leslie Gulch in the Oregon Owyhee Canyonlands. We like to think of it as our own little taste of Zion, but it's a stretch.

Feedback especially welcome here.

Comments

3 comments
Comment posted by Lon Overacker on October 19, 2013 at 2:46 PM
Marylynne,

Nice job incorporating the road, although we can't actually see it curve back in to the scene, but I can tell where the road is going. Sure looks like a photogenic canyon with many opportunities and can see why there may be claims of a "little taste of Zion..." ;-)

This image has a lot going for it; I like the clouds, atmosphere and even the trace of sun rays in the sky. There's a nice glow on the tower formations. In fact I think you have some room to boost the color/sat to enhance that glow a little, but the processing is very good as presented.

Although the road works in the comp, I think you have an alternative crop if you want to exclude the hand of man completely. this makes of a very nice landscape with a square format if you cropped out the road. Just a thought, but like this as presented too.

Lon
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Comment posted by Marylynne Diggs on October 20, 2013 at 11:56 PM
Thanks, Lon. Funny, I never even thought about how easy it would be to remove the road! I'll give it a shot this week amd repost for opinions.
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Comment posted by Mark Seaver on October 23, 2013 at 9:40 AM
I like the road here. It invites me to go exploring through these interesting formations. The lighting is also interesting, there's a neat subtle glow to those two towers peeking around the bend. My one thought is that you could emphasize the land and those two towers more by cropping about half of the sky. Yes, that loses the interesting cloud upper left, but for me, that cloud distracts from the main story here.
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