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Description
Sandstorms in Death Valley render the dunes clean, temporarily; so a good morning to get out there, Mesquite Dunes.
Here, the warm tones of the sands gives way to texture and gradients in monochrome.
Technical Details
ISO 320. f/20. 1/40 sec.
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Ahhhhh, another amazing Dune scene (seen). I find my eye rolling around in the mounds and curves, being grounded in the bushes that are perfectly placed in the composition. I did have an idea to play around with cropping up from the large, intense contrasty bottom part of the image so that its curve ends about 2/3 of the way in. There’s so much of it’s dark heavy presence my eye kinda gets stuck there. I’ll give a try at posting what I mean with your photo - never tried that before, so we’ll see. Love how the big mountains ever present behind the Mesquite Dunes is shrouded in that lovely uplifting fog - no wait a minute, this is Death Valley. No fog there! That’s blowing sand, right?
I did it! (I think). Here’s my thought for a crop. I tried to keep it at 16x9, but it didn’t quite allow enough crop up from the bottom without losing that very cool s curve UL. Hope it was ok to play around with it?
Let me add my 2 cents as it relates to the cropping. Connie’s crop of the bottom portion , is an improvement and I would also take a bit of the left side . This would help to emphasize the dust storm . All in all a nice image.
This is just great Delton. I don’t really see any reason not to stick with your original image here, but if you were to crop a bit, I would crop up from the bottom just a bit, but leave the complete line of the sloping dune in the foreground.
