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I thought this area was interesting... I had no other way to compile the whole scene except by doing a panoramic. Given the chance to do it again-- you know what I would change-- I would include more of the tree on the right! Can't believe I didn't get it! But, we were at the top of the mountain and running out of daylight. I had only a few minutes to cross over one more mountain ridge (can you call it a "ridge" if it's not rigid?) to watch the sunset behind some distant mountains from the top of this one. This image is composed of eleven photographs and original panoramic size before cropping out the white space was 18,298 pixels x 4,672 pixels.

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As I stated in an earlier post, Moab is about the plants and trees. HAHAHA!!! Yet another picture to prove my point! Without the tree on the left- this picture would have nice colors, but would be as boring as my eighth grade history class. This tree's stark contrast to the colorful background helps to ground the colors and make them more vivid. This panoramic photograph was created in Adobe Photoshop CS3 merging six images. I also used the program to burn the sky a little. Original pano size before cropping out the white areas was 12,038 pixels x 4,644 pixels.

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When we went into Moab I was disappointed with the sky. I wanted the same blue skies that I had seen in some of the best photographs of the arches. Occasionally, I would get lucky and grab a hint of blue in some of my shots. When we drove away from this scene and I saw it in the rear view mirror, I told my husband to pull over. I ran out of the truck and up a hill to grab this panoramic shot of the angry skies spilling onto the arid landscape. It was at this point I realized that the fact that I had no blue sky to work with was indeed a challenge sent directly to me from above. (Yup... I soooo just ended a sentence in a preposition...) I have never been known to take photographs the traditional way or to see things like everyone else... why would I start now??? At this point, I decided to change my attitude and realized that I needed to take beautiful non- blue sky photographs to show Moab in its rarer state, a state of vulnerability. This photograph was composed from I think ten or eleven photographs. Original image size is 22,169 pixels x 5,799 before cropping out the white edges.

MOAB IS NOT ABOUT THE ROCKS

I refuse to see Moab, UT the same as the rest of humanity... not my style quite honestly. Throughout the extremely photogenic national park there are many places to pull off the road and enjoy the picturesque scenery and view beautiful rock formations that have taken thousands of years to form, ...... BUT the simple truth of the matter is that without Moab's amazing plantlife, with its drastic change from green to red rocks, and then having gorgeous blue skies to complete the scene, Moab would not be nearly as interesting. Even the dead trees and plants destroyed by fires in the past, or just from the desert conditions, tell a great story of the fragility of such a rocky environment and become the focus of my atteniton-- they become the subject of my photographs and the great skies and rock formations are merely a backdrop.

beautiful clouds

This is a panoramic image, created from four photographs, was merged by the fantabulous CS3. The panoramic adjustments that Adobe made to the program made a drastic improvement from the CS2 version in the quality of merged photographs, making the areas where the photos merge nearly undetectable. In the next Photoshop I hope to see the same level of improvement in their High Dynamic Range (HDR) photomerging.

ummm.... i just love the drama in this image...

This is a panoramic image created from four photographs.

not sure this one is my favorite... but i like the clouds

angry sky

double v

tree decides to mock the rocks

Spikey hairball thing

tree in Moab

tree in Moab national park

intriguing lighting :)