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Endless Dunes
Endless Dunes
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Challenge: Free Study 2008-07 (Advanced Editing VII)
Camera: Nikon D50
Lens: Nikon AF-S DX Zoom-Nikkor 18-70mm f/3.5-4.5G IF-ED
Location: Great Sand Dunes National Park, CO
Date: Jul 16, 2008
Aperture: 3.5
ISO: 200
Shutter: 1250
Galleries: Landscape, Nature
Date Uploaded: Jul 25, 2008

 The Great Sand Dunes National Park near Alamosa, CO is one of my favorite places to visit, and I'm lucky enough to be within a four-hour drive of it. The dunes are massive (up to 750 feet tall), and it's fun merely to climb around on them, much less take photos. The color and shadows change noticeably throughout the day, so it's always interesting seeing how the photos will turn out. I have a bunch from a recent trip that I like, so picking just one was pretty tough. Hopefully people won't find the lack of a central object in the foreground to be too much of a detriment...

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Place: 35 out of 524
Avg (all users): 6.5644
Avg (commenters): 7.3846
Avg (participants): 6.5122
Avg (non-participants): 6.7250
Views since voting: 1169
Views during voting: 262
Votes: 163
Comments: 15
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 08/08/2008 01:54:41 AM
beautiful
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 Comments Made During the Challenge
08/06/2008 08:27:24 AM
lovely...white border line a little too thick, but other than that, great
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 08/05/2008 07:20:09 PM
Nice composition, the texture & detail are great.
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 08/05/2008 02:53:24 AM
I'm a sucker for dunes. And this composition is nice. But something I can't put my finger on is distracting me. Your leading line carries me into the composition but then leaves me muddling around in the hills. Maybe a different vantage point would have helped the rhythm of the lines. Still it's dunes!!!
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 08/05/2008 01:31:30 AM
beautiful shot , just missing that little extra IMO , 7
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 08/04/2008 05:45:54 PM
very impressive - it's a pity there's so much cloud in the sky.
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 08/04/2008 03:51:00 PM
Great colors
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 08/02/2008 12:54:10 PM
Guh! Sand dunes - what a boring subject. This'll get nowhere.
; )

Great light and nice sense of desolation/loneliness. The only gripe is that the image is a little overexposed in the sky and lacks a little sharpness in the foreground detail.
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 08/01/2008 11:33:14 PM
I'd lose the border - makes it look kind of like one of those motivational posters....like it should say something about success or adversity underneath. The pic itself is really lovely.
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 08/01/2008 11:20:16 PM
awesome shot, kind of out dated framing
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 08/01/2008 06:57:48 PM
terrific composition
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 08/01/2008 02:43:38 PM
Beautiful!
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 08/01/2008 11:50:00 AM
Stunning. Where is this taken? I was in endless dunes like this in Peru. Nice capture.
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 08/01/2008 09:41:42 AM
wonderful colours and composition 9
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 08/01/2008 05:03:22 AM
great composition
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