This is a stunning photo. I think every picture I've tried to take of vast landscapes like this has ended up invoking a disappointing feeling of "well, you really just had to be there to understand."
Your shot actually seems to capture the place.
I'm no geologist, but the size and shape of the hills seems regular enough to represent some specific geologic process. Old valcanic domes?, "new" loess hills?, lots of compulsive bulldozer drivers? I bet there's a story there, but not knowing the underlying mechanism is OK, too.
This week I watched the thin cresent moon set over a lake, getting dark red in the process to a degree I don't recall ever seeing before. Best in class events still impress me - even when (or perhaps because?) they are by definition more rare with my total observer time. Alas, no camera (or skills) to capture it.
It didn't come out like I remembered the scene .. so, I increased the contrast and amount of yellow. The tweaking made it look much closer to what I saw. What wasn't captured is the severe drop in the first hill .. the road dropped at an angle so steep that I couldn't it. Was a fun ride down!
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This is a stunning photo. I think every picture I've tried to take of vast landscapes like this has ended up invoking a disappointing feeling of "well, you really just had to be there to understand."
Your shot actually seems to capture the place.
I'm no geologist, but the size and shape of the hills seems regular enough to represent some specific geologic process. Old valcanic domes?, "new" loess hills?, lots of compulsive bulldozer drivers? I bet there's a story there, but not knowing the underlying mechanism is OK, too.
This week I watched the thin cresent moon set over a lake, getting dark red in the process to a degree I don't recall ever seeing before. Best in class events still impress me - even when (or perhaps because?) they are by definition more rare with my total observer time. Alas, no camera (or skills) to capture it.
Jeff
Link to the original unaltered photo (taken with my minoHD video camera)
Original Photo
It didn't come out like I remembered the scene .. so, I increased the contrast and amount of yellow. The tweaking made it look much closer to what I saw. What wasn't captured is the severe drop in the first hill .. the road dropped at an angle so steep that I couldn't it. Was a fun ride down!
Not yellow enough, hmm.
Probably your camera autoadjusting to what some programmer considers a "nice" weighted average.
But if everything looks yellow and you are on medicine you might want to look up: Van Gogh, yellow period, fox glove, digoxin.
Great composition, and a remarkable hill.
Really great pic. How is the quality, pulling it of the video camera - could you have it printed as well?