Monument Valley, March 19,1998. This is real, well, as real as Velvia can be. Probably shot with the 80-200/2.8 zoom at f8 or f11, loooong exposure on Velvia - didn't record or remember it. Pete

-- Pete Dickson (dickson.pn@pg.com), August 21, 1998

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Beautiful colors, nice composition. Marvelous. Tiny scan, though.

-- Mark Erickson (maericks@netcom.com), August 21, 1998.

Great shot! Don't change a thing, except maybe the size;)

Excellent composition of the rock formations against the sunset. Good selection and positioning of the pair (off-center) and depth (large and small formations). Good balance of the foreground and sky in upper and lower parts sections of the frame. Somebody may tell you there's too much dead space in the foreground, but that is nitpicking. Exposure captures the dynamic colors.

Executed very well.

-- Joe Boyd (boydjw@traveller.com), August 21, 1998.

How about a bigger scan, Pete.

-- Paul Lenson (lenson@pci.on.ca), August 21, 1998.

Good use of "Golden Ratio" for peaks, foreground, and sky colour.

-- Paul Lenson (lenson@pci.on.ca), August 21, 1998.

The colors are very nice. I might crop a tad off the top but other than that looks very good.

Goes to show you that the early bird catches the worm. When I was there I got a nice sunset shot but my early moring sunrise shot was clouded out.

-- brad mills (dbradmills@aol.com), August 21, 1998.

Absolutely beautiful, Pete. You need a larger scan to appreciate it though.

-- Shun Cheung (shun@worldnet.att.net), August 21, 1998.

the perfect answer to the question: "what is meant by the phrase, f8 and be there"...and, besides, this is a terrific composition. congratulations.

-- wayne harrison (wayno@netmcr.com), August 21, 1998.

I too cannot think of anything that would have improved upon this one. Nice photo.

-- Matt Swope (vswope@voyager.net), August 22, 1998.

A striking abstract - but call it real??? To me it doesn't matter whehter this is how it came off the film or whether it were maipulated. It looks almost like a product of a drawing program (I know it isn't, but that's the effect you achieve).

-- (andreas@physio.unr.edu), August 27, 1998.

ditto Shun and Paul - makes me want to see it bigger, altho I bet it wouldn't improve anything - this is an example of less is more to the nth degree!

-- Tom Williams (image.araya@mailcity.com), September 06, 1998.