King of Arizona

Last weekend, I met up with Peter Coskun, Karl Buiter and Don Lawrence to enjoy the desert warmth and mountains near Yuma, AZ. This is probably my favorite image from the weekend. Any suggestions for this image? Compared to what I posted on 500px, I have selected the land and brightened it 4 points, and made a very slight burn around the edge.

Doug, it's a nice enough scene, but there's so much happening in it, it's hard to know what to look at first What's your primary subject? The pink streaked sky? The saguaro? The jagged rocks? Forgive me, but you appear to be trying for a pano, but without much of a pano subject.

Sometimes, less is more. My eye keeps being drawn to a smaller piece of the whole ... on the left side ... to include much of the sky and cutting off the foreground just below the saguaro.

But hey, that's me.

Doug, I agree with Howard: lots going on, not a strong focus on a particular element and you could definitely crop a bunch of the foreground. When I first saw it, what caught my eye was the saguaro splitting the skyline & I wondered if a lower POV would have isolated it better since you have it centered in the frame. Compared to what you posted on 500px, you've definitely increased the depth (a good thing).

Doug, the color palate along with the saquaro, jagged rocks and pastel sky is a true representation of AZ, great landscape in that regard. I am not too fond of the saquaro centered though it does not take up much of the frame compared to the other points of interest it appears to monopolize the image, at least in my view. I would try the suggestions noted by the others. thanks for posting.

Thanks for the valued feedback. I had posted a revision on the RMNP Facebook page (a 800px. 300kb reply here would not show well, imo)