West View
by androgeus

Comment by sidpixel:
Nice wide angle view with plenty of foreground interest, nice timing in capturing the not too bright sun and what an impressive cloud bank, should do well

Centennial
by androgeus

Comment by Giles:
seen these olive trees a few times havent we :), there seems to be a strange mark or actual like tractor wheel rut to the right which takes your eye off to the back of the image?

West View
by androgeus

Comment by Tiny:
Seem to keep seeing this,its good

Cactus Fruits
by androgeus

Comment by androgeus:
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Message edited by author 2011-11-28 04:10:43.

Cactus Fruits
by androgeus

Comment by herfotoman:
Best. Thanks for sharing.

Cactus Fruits
by androgeus

Comment by 1m1A:
Gorgeous.

Cactus Fruits
by androgeus

Comment by blindjustice:
putting that city and sky behind this is just showing off!

Cactus Fruits
by androgeus

Comment by bohemka:
Super rich colors and tones give this a great gloom. Storybook sky.

What I'm about to say is something I cannot do, but with some of the software out there I know it's possible and I think it might even give this already great image a boost. You obviously know what you're doing with PP, but consider this... The eye is caught in the front of the photo with the fruits, and then it has to jump over a bit of dulled space to get to the great sky/horizon. But there are more fruits at 9 o'clock and then another closer to the cityscape. The cacti also seem to present a trough right there. With some targeted exposure manipulation of brightening that fruit up a bit and "lighting a path" through the trough, you'd be able to lead the eye from the rich fruit up front, through the cacti to the other fruit, and on to the horizon and sky. Just a theory, of course, but maybe worth playing around with. or it may completely ruin the image.

Regardless, this is super.

Cactus Fruits
by androgeus

Comment by wetland:
Very well done...great composition.

Cactus Fruits
by androgeus

Comment by mariuca:
I heard that once one approaches too much a certain type of cacti they throw spikes - just like poisonous arrows - and cover the intruder totally turning him into a sort of captured Gulliver. I imagine that they look very lovely, just like these ones. Delectable tonality.
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