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mtngal · Jun 7, 2012, 10:37 PM

Thought the blowing sand in the high winds was interesting. Another type of weather shot, about the only one I have of this. Taken January 2011 in Death Valley.

ItDontMeanAThing · Jun 7, 2012, 11:30 PM

Nice! Love the combo of lighting, time of day, POV, the dust and that you didn't use PP to make anything pop. I played around with some cropping. Found I liked this better by removing about 80% of the foreground then taking a little off the top until the foreground and sky stopped competing with the dust and mountains. I'm not saying they're a distraction, far from it, they're integral elements.

wave01 · Jun 8, 2012, 2:57 AM

that looks dramatic

vsch1 · Jun 8, 2012, 8:09 AM

Beautiful composition. Just the right amount of sky, mountain, blowing sand and road.

ramcewan · Jun 8, 2012, 1:37 PM

very nice - I drove through a dust storm out in the middle of the painted desert between page, az and the grand canyon. It was very surreal.

mtngal · Jun 9, 2012, 6:16 PM

Blowing dust and sand is always interesting, but not always easy to photograph. The first one I was ever in, it was so dark I thought it was foggy at first. It ended up sand-blasting some of the paint off the car I was driving. This one was not anything like that, so was much easier to photograph.

bobbert · Jun 10, 2012, 9:50 PM

Sure looks like the road to nowhere... or somewhere Thelma and Louise would drive. Great composition

Jun 7, 2012, 10:37 PM	#1
mtngal Senior Member Join Date: Nov 2005 Location: Frazier Park, CA Posts: 16,177	Weather - Minor Sandstorm Thought the blowing sand in the high winds was interesting. Another type of weather shot, about the only one I have of this. Taken January 2011 in Death Valley.

Jun 8, 2012, 1:37 PM	#5
ramcewan Senior Member Join Date: Jan 2012 Location: New England, USA Posts: 2,069	very nice - I drove through a dust storm out in the middle of the painted desert between page, az and the grand canyon. It was very surreal. __________________ in my bag: e-m1, 7-14mm pro, 14-54mm mk ii, 50-200mm mk i, 70-300mm in my pocket: e-pm2 lumix 12-32

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Jun 7, 2012, 11:30 PM	#2
ItDontMeanAThing Senior Member Join Date: Oct 2010 Location: Hua Hin, Thailand Posts: 403	Nice! Love the combo of lighting, time of day, POV, the dust and that you didn't use PP to make anything pop. I played around with some cropping. Found I liked this better by removing about 80% of the foreground then taking a little off the top until the foreground and sky stopped competing with the dust and mountains. I'm not saying they're a distraction, far from it, they're integral elements.

Jun 8, 2012, 2:57 AM	#3
wave01 Senior Member Join Date: Jun 2010 Location: North West England Posts: 1,750	that looks dramatic

Jun 8, 2012, 8:09 AM	#4
vsch1 Senior Member Join Date: Jul 2005 Posts: 2,885	Beautiful composition. Just the right amount of sky, mountain, blowing sand and road.

Jun 9, 2012, 6:16 PM	#6
mtngal Senior Member Join Date: Nov 2005 Location: Frazier Park, CA Posts: 16,177	Blowing dust and sand is always interesting, but not always easy to photograph. The first one I was ever in, it was so dark I thought it was foggy at first. It ended up sand-blasting some of the paint off the car I was driving. This one was not anything like that, so was much easier to photograph.

Jun 10, 2012, 9:50 PM	#7
bobbert Senior Member Join Date: Dec 2006 Location: Toronto Canada Posts: 600	Sure looks like the road to nowhere... or somewhere Thelma and Louise would drive. Great composition