River of Gold...

Gallery: LandscapePosted April 6, 20052,903 views15 comments

...Goldenfields that is. Carrizo Plain from two weeks ago. The goldenfields were profuse and formed "rivers" of color in the shallow gullies. around Soda Lake.

Your thoughts on this image.

Shen-Hao 4x5, Nikon 300mm, Fuji Astia 100F

Comments

15 comments

Comment posted by Guy Tal on April 6, 2005 at 10:39 PM

This one is my favorite of the series, Youssef. Absolutely beautiful and masterfully composed.

Guy

Registered on November 1, 2003, 566 Posts, 15507 Comments

Comment posted by Scott Schroeder on April 6, 2005 at 10:59 PM

What can I say but beautiful. I like the winding river and the collaboration of colors.

Registered on November 1, 2003, 147 Posts, 518 Comments

Comment posted by Doug Dolde on April 6, 2005 at 11:06 PM

I was thinking the same thing before I read it "River of Flowers". A very pretty shot.

Registered on November 1, 2003, 305 Posts, 3900 Comments

Comment posted by Jerry Greer on April 6, 2005 at 11:27 PM

Youssef,

Awesome! I love the "flow" of this image! Great color and comp!

Registered on November 1, 2003, 404 Posts, 1977 Comments

Comment posted by Chris Ross on April 7, 2005 at 1:54 AM

Excellent image, nicely composed, nothing here that doesn't need to be. Not sure how the screen matches the original, but it looks like you could add a touch of saturation on my average work monitor, I'll have to have a look tonight on my good monitor.

Registered on November 1, 2003, 403 Posts, 2729 Comments

Comment posted by Prashant Khapane on April 7, 2005 at 3:29 AM

Beautiful!!

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Comment posted by Ian Cameron on April 7, 2005 at 9:51 AM

A wonderful sweep of colour Youssef that meanders very beautifully through the subtle hues along the banks of the "river". Just as a point of interest. I quite often find these busy highly detailed scenes hard to compose in camera and I find I need to simplify it so as not to be distracted by a visual overload of information. A little trick I use is to de-focus the camera so that you are left with washes of colour and/or light and shade on the viewing screen, then I adjust my viewpoint to balance the weight of colour contrast and hue and light to dark before re focussing and taking the picture. It works for me!! I find the little area of yellow right at the top of the image just pulls my attention away from the flow of the "river of gold".

Registered on August 6, 2004, 1125 Posts, 3318 Comments

Comment posted by Todd Caudle on April 7, 2005 at 11:40 AM

Man, am I ever regretting being too busy and broke to have gotten out for the desert bloom this year! Beautiful image. It has a nice sweeping feeling to it.

Registered on November 9, 2003, 472 Posts, 3705 Comments

Comment posted by Juza on April 7, 2005 at 1:08 PM

Thanks for sharing Youssef...this image is a joy to view, I wish to be there!

Registered on November 1, 2003, 374 Posts, 10466 Comments

Comment posted by Jess Lee on April 7, 2005 at 2:26 PM

Whoa! Good job. I can see I came home too early and didn't go far enough west.

More?

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Comment posted by Bret Edge on April 7, 2005 at 2:51 PM

This is simply divine, Youssef. Best of the wonderful bunch of photos you've posted of this area. It might be a little oversharpened, but that's minor. I bet a large print of this is just mesmerizing!

Registered on November 1, 2003, 711 Posts, 6363 Comments

Comment posted by Mark Windom on April 7, 2005 at 7:14 PM

Terrific job of creating order out of the chaos.

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Comment posted by Ed Lowe on April 7, 2005 at 8:07 PM

This has a wonderful flow to it, Youssef. The bands of yellow flowers pulls you into the image. Nicely done.

Ed

Registered on February 7, 2004, 414 Posts, 7115 Comments

Comment posted by Keith Anderson on April 8, 2005 at 1:18 AM

That's a really nice image, great colour and the river of flowers certainly do flow

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Comment posted by Waleed Marhoum on January 26, 2007 at 10:36 PM

ya salam 3aleek ya youssef
wonderful

:)

Registered on December 29, 2006, 85 Posts, 421 Comments