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• gneufeld (10355)
• [2008-05-28 20:40]

Hi Peter,
A strikingly stark image but amazingly beautiful in its own way. The textures created by the dryness are quite amazing. You do such a fine job of presenting the details in the foreground but never leave the distant skyline out. Very well done and TFs. Gerald

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• colinb (1258)
• [2008-05-28 20:41]

Wow, truly an otherworldly scene. Love the soft light you've captured, it's such a contrast from the rugged earth. Great shot!

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• tomescuc (1211)
• [2008-05-28 21:24]

Hey Peter,
The DOF is outstanding, great detail of the ground otherwordly shape and texture. The light and purplish tones gives the impression of another world.
cheers,
CT

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• batalay (15106)
• [2008-05-28 21:26]
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Hello Peter,

Your Martian shots are technically better than those of NASA. For one thing, they haven't leveled the horizon. It cost around $520 for NASA, and you probably produced this surpassing shot for a little less. Perhaps you should have cropped out the atmosphere however, the spectrum in your image revealing a more Nitrogen-Oxygen atmosphere than Mars possesses.

Warm regards,

Bulent

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• siolaw (22741)
• [2008-05-28 21:39]

Hi Peter,
This one too fits its title well1 Real out of the planet stuff! Good choice of vertical framing giving depth; just enough sky due to low horizon framing, superb color tones and good detail and textures.
Excellent
Laurent

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• mesutilgim (24955)
• [2008-05-28 21:46]

Hi dear Peter,
Mars on earth !! You had posted some similar captures before, but this one is a real "Leckerbissen" !!
Good pov and amazing depth of sharpness. Very nice graphical effect.
TFS and best regards
MESUT ILGIM

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• fayeulle (23680)
• [2008-05-28 21:58]

Hi Peter
Astonishing landscape from an other planet. I really like the way you captured the details on the FG.
Cheers
JP

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• gary91 (14543)
• [2008-05-28 22:01]

Hello Peter,
Another fantastic shot from yours...
The low point of view and the very few spave given to the sky is well thought of. Of course, the colors in the sky are outstanding and the low light added with the ND filter are producing a superb result.
These cracking are really estonishing...
Great work again!
Have a nice day.
Best regards, Christian

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• Dyerco (5366)
• [2008-05-28 22:43]

Excellent shot Peter. The ND grad filter paid off in spades. Wonderful DOF and the detail is superb.
Phil

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• jjcordier (15591)
• [2008-05-28 22:46]

Peter
Effectivement, on pourrait se croire sur Mars!Une photo d'une qualité exceptionnelle!
Amicalement
JJ

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• HimalAnda (440)
• [2008-05-28 23:09]

This is a wonderful picture !
Colors in the sky are beautiful and the point of vue, with this amazing foreground, is really good.
Congratulations !

Stephane

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• derek3755 (2470)
• [2008-05-28 23:37]

Hi Peter

wonderful shot showing the textures of these polygons, cetainly shooting late evening has paid off bringing out a great deal of colour with the help of the ND filters.

Regards
Derek

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• greg64g (17322)
• [2008-05-29 1:22]

hi Peter

what a superb foreground with so beautiful colors on sky, i have no idea to give an advise or critic, simply perfect
cheers
greg

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• delkoo (24998)
• [2008-05-29 1:43]

hi peter,
Your low POV works well to emphasize the depth of the landscape, the colors are so beautiful,The texture of the ground is exceptional .
really good one
didier

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• ribeiroantonio (15552)
• [2008-05-29 1:47]

This excellent picture proofs that there is water on Mars and, at a minute fraction of the cost NASA is wasting. The sharpness is so good we almost can see each individual salt crystal.
Antonio

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• ktanska (12463)
• [2008-05-29 1:50]

Hi Peter,
Just wonderful. Beautiful twilight tones. Those polygons are fascinating. And you selected foreground well, that big wrinkle is special. I guess it takes a little more time to teach those NASA robots art of photography.
Kari

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• japiey (9337)
• [2008-05-29 2:16]

Hi Peter,

Creative image.
Beautifull tones, and I like your title.
Excellent.

jp

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• PixelTerror (73812)
• [2008-05-29 2:19]

Hi Peter,
A good image to fit to this event, given the place and the time of your shot it could really look like from another planet. I have more good news for you: you do not need to change your car ;-)))
Have a nice day JY

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• paura (23240)
• [2008-05-29 2:50]

Peter,
Uma beleza de imagem, Peter. Formas e cores magníficas. O 22 de f/stop aí falou alto...

Abração

Paulo

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• feather (40653)
• [2008-05-29 2:57]

Well for a start someone should tell them to level the tilted horizon; yours is a good lesson on that issue. If Martians landed here no doubt they would think earth was unpopulated, unless they came across a canvas "dome" with a napping photographer inside.:D This is another excellent shot from this place with excellent tech quality. The depth and sharpness are perfect. The surface reminds me of patched suede. How hard is it? Is it brittle? I almost forgot to mention the sky. The grad brought the sunrise colours out very well.
Good shot
Kath

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• sacavem (5011)
• [2008-05-29 4:02]

Olá Peter,

Grande imagem captada na vertical, faz um impacto visual muito grande com uma profundidade excelente. Cores e textura magnificas. A exposição f/22 foi muito inteligente para criar definição e profundidade.

Um abraço,
Filipe

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• mikeo (9056)
• [2008-05-29 4:03]

Hi Peter,

Great note;) So you suggest all NASA members should have a training with TE Members? Yeahhhhhhh I agree;) Or I have a better idea - we will send you to Mars - I am sure you will bring fabulous shots from there;)

And seriously...Amazing shot, superb composition and colours. Perfectly chosen POV.
I like it a lot! Good job!

Greetings,
Mikeo

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• Greg1949 (5634)
• [2008-05-29 5:01]

Another nice one Peter, and it is as the title says; something from another world. Everything about the shot is nice, I bet the origianl is awesome. Great capture.

Greg

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• avene (6190)
• [2008-05-29 5:05]

hi Peter,
so, when are we going to Mars to show that decent photographers can find fine composition even there? that NASA shot really is nothing to write home about. unlike your post ;) love the textures and gradient sunset colours, the combination looks more unreal that the Mars surface. excellent!

with best regards,
Kristine

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• UnTrained (13514)
• [2008-05-29 5:39]

Hello Peter,
but the one you linked is pretty much better than the ones from the Raw Images from Robotic Arm Camera ;-) Overexposed, symmetric approach.
The texture of yours here is nice, could be also a model of some mountain landscapes. Very pleasant with the background colour of the sky.
And for your question: No and yes, as it is makes sense to go there but makes no sense to forget out "local earth" challenges.
Lieben Gruss, Ulf

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• belido (9661)
• [2008-05-29 5:57]

Olá Peter,

de volta à Terra? Ou fez uma parada rápida em algum mundo estranho da constelação Órion...magnífica imagem, bem no estilo Peter vertical framing. A profundidade de campo está 10: me sinto um inseto em relação ao primeiro plano e um gigante em relação ao horizonte. Beleza!
Abraço,
Carlos

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• jafadabret (27847)
• [2008-05-29 6:34]

Peter, j'aime beaucoup cette photo qui pourrait être une photo de la planète Mars. Le rouge domine et ce sol craquelé pourrait bien se trouver dans un autre monde. Très belle photo !
Jacques

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• MarcT (14774)
• [2008-05-29 7:29]

Hi Peter,
Those colours are superb. The texture of the ground gives a lot of volume to your picture.
Well done
Marc

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• chpp (3115)
• [2008-05-29 7:39]

Hi Peter
I like this shot a lot. great details of the cell like formation in this sea of salt. The POV has a great effect and make it look even more impresive while preserving the depth.
Regarding Mars you have a nice advantage, they took the picture from here with limited camera movement and POV selection :) Plus the image is amazing just because is from another planet not because of the picture it self. But you did and excellent introduction in your note :)
cheers
C

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• zmey (5180)
• [2008-05-29 7:42]
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hey there, pete

very trek-earthy foto in the most direct sense of the word... love your POV. the detail is fantastic down to the level of salt christal (or is it frost?) playing out in the foreground. the patchwork pattern looks almost like my grandfather's coat he used to wear while doing logging in winter.

as to your rhetorical question at the end of the note: hmm... i feel, there will always be problems of some sort 'at home' :)) i do not argue that we should not see to their solution, but that shouldn't stop us from looking for further horizons, should it? after all, we most likely would know much less about the world around us if isac newton just cared about healing the bump the famous apple gave to his forehead... ;))

cheers,
kristaps

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• sevy (6237)
• [2008-05-29 7:51]

Hello Peter,

Beautiful and strange nature. The title is also sharing this idea.
It remembers me some landscape of Bolivia and the salar Uyuni.
The composition of the photo is well adapted to this subject as the foreground shows details and after the compositon with the wide angle drives nicely the looks toward the moutains in background and the colors of the sunset.

Yves.

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• Dpbours (7548)
• [2008-05-29 7:57]

Hi Peter,

Another exceptional shot of this place. The contrast in the difference of light foreground - horizon is wonderful. Nice nice nice. I really need to go there one day ;-).

Greetings!
Dennis

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• Wandering_Dan (3233)
• [2008-05-29 8:37]

Hi, Peter -

Yes, it looks like Mars. But as Bulent pointed out, it's got the wrong atmosphere, and the horizon is too far away. Fix that, please. ;-)

A peculiar ratio of land to sky here. It took a minute of study to decide that I like it. Incredibly crisp and focused - at f/22 it should be! And great use of post-sunset glow.

Best,
Dan

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• NMaverick (0)
• [2008-05-29 8:59]

Hi Peter, you are right in many thing you say here. I couldn't agree with you more that NASA should have been advised by a good photographer not only for the composition but for the equipment they should have been used, the angle of view and many other elements that only a photographer should know.
Now for your photo: A classical Martian photo, I am still waiting to see those little green men in the distance. Perfect framing, sharp details and clever use of your ND 3 hard filter. What more to say?
Bravo
Nick

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• jonathan_hart (15522)
• [2008-05-29 13:58]

excellent depth and sharpness, a perfect photojob, excellent texture and details, the colours are great !
regards
jo

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• Philippe (9519)
• [2008-05-29 13:58]

Hi, Peter. Your note doesn't lack humour, but raises some important issues too. No doubt you are a much better photographer than the one from the NASA. I think you should send an application letter. Who knows? Your foreground is fantastic, showing lots of details and the colours in the sky are gorgeous. There is a very good depth, also in the background with the different ridges on both sides of the image.

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• IgorDeleze (15768)
• [2008-05-29 14:08]

Hello Peter,
It's a fantastic and incredible landscape!
Just a great picture.
Greetings.
Igor

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• MLINES (9052)
• [2008-05-30 0:16]

Hi Peter, I agree with your comments on the expensive visits to Mars etc.We should use the money to make this a better world. This composition is striking and could indeed be another world. The strong foreground details and the colours in the back make it emotive to see on TE. TFS. Murray.

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• mikolaj_kawa (14869)
• [2008-05-30 0:31]

Hello Peter! Wonderful shot. Good POV, very good composition. Original work. Great effect. Good luck!

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• aadilj (10696)
• [2008-05-30 1:16]

Your textures and contrasts are surely a great inspiration and diffcult to follow up as well!!! I lov the way you capture the wide scenes with such simplicty. great composition

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• marietom (20953)
• [2008-05-30 1:20]

Hello Peter,

J'aime beaucoup ton titre, ça fait très planète mars, en effet, ce sol et ces couleurs.
Magnifique !
Bonne soirée
Marie

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• jimkilgallon (1503)
• [2008-05-30 8:54]

Hello Peter

Fantastic capture here, the orange glow in the sky against the darker mountains is perfect. The Polygonal textures in the FG are well detailed and the subtle colour compliments the scene well. Sharpness, colour and compo is spot on. Great work
Regards
Jim

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• TopGeo (12787)
• [2008-05-30 9:25]

Hi Peter! excellent shot!It is a picture of locality that I can say marvellous, Good the note and the imprinting inventive and with inspiration of moment amazing and in his first and level background also.
Georgios

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• Gerrit (25642)
• [2008-05-30 10:52]

Hi Peter,
Well it looks like you made a stopover on the moon. Didn't I see this one before? it is a beauty with the salty lines in the purple sand.
Regards, Gerrit

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• mydrjoe (1114)
• [2008-05-30 15:09]

Hi Peter,

This is an incredible landscape where, to my eye, everything is perfect. Congratulations!

Have a nice weekend.
JR

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• gunbud (18137)
• [2008-05-30 18:51]

Hi Peter,
This is a marvelous vertical presentation of this stark inhospitable landscape that does indeed bring to mind Mars or some other distant planet. Great sharp details to the cracking salt flat and a wonderful golden sky above the distant hills.
Regards, Tom

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• Scharan (11956)
• [2008-05-30 19:43]

Olá Peter

Mais uma das suas lindas e interessantes fotos. Está excelente este trabalho. Ótima luz e textura. Interessantes formas na areia
que deram um ótimo resultado de imagem.
GA
Vera

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• Wanda1 (8337)
• [2008-05-31 2:01]

Hi Peter,
Looking at your gallery I see that you like to use the vertical format for quite a few of your landscape images, I really like this and think that sometimes this format really draws the eye into the landscape and gives more concentration on it. This is a great one as our eye is led into the shot along the crusts, textures and lines of salt to the beautiful orange glow on the horizon.
Regards
Wanda

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• Photo65Net (32728)
• [2008-05-31 3:09]

Peter,
This compo is just perfect IMO. You underlined the FG texture, and what choice could be better here ? None, great job,
Regards,
JB.

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• mark_mk (2178)
• [2008-05-31 7:05]

Hallo Peter,
unglaublich wie viele tolle Bilder du von Death Valley hast.
So viele hab ich nicht, aber ich hatte nur einen Tag, wie lang warst du da? Es scheint fast so als hättest du von wirklich überall tolle Fotos. Das hier ist echt super, die Tiefenschärfe ist super und dieser Himmel... klasse!
Mich freut es schon, wenn du ins Monument Valley kommst, denn dann kann ich bestimmt tolle Bilder erwarten. Also hoffentlich kommst du da bald hin, würde mich echt freuen und bis dahin poste noch mehr so klasse Bilder!

Beste Grüße
Mark

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• albertz (2095)
• [2008-05-31 9:52]

I felt like I'm standing right in the scene. Excellent shot of this amazing phenomenon. You have reasonably use small aperture in order to have a large depth of field as it kept as much of the salt pan in focus as possible. Excellent.

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• bostankorkulugu (25573)
• [2008-05-31 12:36]

purple and orange at their best combination... looks from out of this world indeed... masterful as always doc... cheers...

korkut

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• ChrisJ (57323)
• [2008-05-31 18:21]

Hi Peter

Superb lighting & texture, with good repetition of patterns & shapes. I read in the news this week, that contact has been lost with the Mars probe. I hope they can reestablish contact. Tfs!

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• Docarmo (6967)
• [2008-05-31 20:59]

Oi Peter,
Impressionantes a nitidez e a profundidade desta imagem.
As cores são espantosas! Mais um belo trabalho!
Agora, a sua pergunta é difícil de responder ;-)
Um abraço,
MCV

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• Flavia (8002)
• [2008-06-01 4:43]

Hi Peter,

Great texture! You got such an impressive result with this low POV, the salt cracks are really graphic. The pastel colors are great and add a lot to the MARS mood.

Regards,

Flavia

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• skippy007 (3071)
• [2008-06-01 5:41]

Hello Peter, Another excellent shot, the depth & detail in this shot is amazing, I can almost smell those salt crystals. The hard harsh ground & soft colours makes for a interesting & beautiful contrast. I also enjoyed your note.
Thanks
Santo

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• abulafia (4473)
• [2008-06-01 6:01]

I agree Peter, this one surely beats the pictures we have seen from Mars:)
Good setup, I like how we can see all the details in the ground.
Very nice, and a good note
Harry

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• sleon (8681)
• [2008-06-01 13:32]

Hi Peter
The detail, texture and dof of this shot are superb. Looks like another world, and truly vast.
Regards, Susanna

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• stego (15352)
• [2008-06-01 15:05]

Olá Peter,
Ilustra bem com esta foto que não é preciso sair do nosso planeta para ver paisagens incríveis e únicas, que mais facilmente associamos a outros planetas ou à imaginação de produtores de ficção científica. O padrão geométrico e textura desse "mar gelado e seco" feito de areia e sal é fantástico, como é o seu enquadramento. A grande nitidez, que se estende desde o 1º plano até ao infinito, os tons do céu e a silhueta das colinas ao fundo dão mais uma ajuda para torná-la uma foto fantástica.
Um abraço, José.

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• dkeus31 (25366)
• [2008-06-02 6:43]

Hi Peter,
I almost missed this superb image!
great light and nice foreground texture, a great image for sure!
regards,didier

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• Blairfraser (773)
• [2008-06-03 13:22]

Hey Peter.

Haha! I love your note! Thats a classic example of 'never get a machine to do a mans job'! This is a very good picture! I love the textures of the ground here. Your composition is very good as well with inculding a lot of this interesting ground and also giving us the mountains as a good background. The colours are also very good and I like this orange glow in the sky.

Very well done Peter!

Blair

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• Wahclellaspirit (2588)
• [2008-06-04 15:59]

HelloPeter,
A phenomenal capture of the shapes and textures of this frozen landscape. Great color...
Steve

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• marrty (227)
• [2008-06-05 6:55]

Dear Peter,
Thanks for sharing this photo. The texture of the ground surfaces is very detailed and I quite like the contrasting colours of the sky. The whole picture has a very apocalyptic quality to it. Best, Martijn

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• testmaniac (9013)
• [2008-06-05 21:41]

Hello Peter, another fantastic photo from this land. Great composition,POV and colors! Just excellent job!
TFS and regards,
Phil

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• bakes888 (12888)
• [2008-06-06 2:14]

Hi Peter. I see what you mean, I think their white balance was off too its far to red ;-). Now about your photo, are you sure this was taken on earth? Very other worldly. The sky only strengthens the surreal feeling. Nice work and thanks for sharing.
Cheers, Paul.

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• azleader (793)
• [2008-06-06 15:56]

Absolutely fascinating that we find so much similarity under vastly different temperature conditions on two planets in our solar system.

It is further proof that Earth is not so very different from other planets and might mean that life as we know it is more common throughout the universe than we'd previously imagined.

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• plimrn (15955)
• [2008-06-08 16:35]

Dear Peter,
I'm with you on solving some of eath's problems first - of course the obvious place to start in my book would be unnecesary wars.

As to critiques, there is little I can add to Kath's very complete comment: DOF & sharpness ARE perfect, the Grad gave you sky color. Very few people, are able to get good close-up focus for the FG and distant focus as well.

HLJ, Pat

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• Angshu (25466)
• [2008-06-09 0:36]

Hello Peter
It's difficult not to think this as your picture, even from the thumbnail. Has your trademark low POV with lots of FG interest. The salt pans are amazing, bathed in the purplish tinge. Incredible sharpness for us to see almost each grain of salt. The sky is amazing, especially the gradation of colours (is that how ND grad filter works). The hills play a very important role in the beauty of the compo. & without them IMO, the flatness alone would not have made it a visual treat as it is now.
With Regards
Angshuman

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• veronika (5980)
• [2008-06-18 8:22]

This one as well, wonderul details!
I like..:)
Vero

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• SELU (482)
• [2008-06-23 6:59]

hi peter,
one big composition, the light and colour is perfect. a greeting.

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• Bluejeans (19444)
• [2008-06-30 13:29]

Oi Peter,
Magnifica esta foto da superfície de Marte :), os desenhos do chão são incríveis deste lugar , ficou lindas as cores no horizonte do pôr do sol , parabéns!!
Um abraço Gonçalo

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• Emile (16101)
• [2008-07-01 13:03]

Hola Peter.
Very interesting place and you catched a perfect spot of the ground with great sharpness and impressive details. The colors of the sky are very good and the mountains produces a nice silhouette.
Sorry that I have been slow with my critiques and posting my shots in TE but when I came back from my trip from California I decided to close my office and get retire from medicine. For the last 10 days I have been just working on that and finally yesterday I was able to finish emptying my office. 71 years old and 47 years working as MD, I think it's time to travel more and take more pictures.
Un fuerte abrazo.

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• banyanman (7470)
• [2008-08-03 3:41]

Hi Peter. Yes, this does look more like the surface of Mars than something on earth - but it's an incredibly beautiful photograph and superb light management with the assistance of your ND filter. This seems to prove too that you don't lose sharpness at f/22 (I recall a debate on that issue last year here on TE). I am wondering what your point of focus was to achieve such good DOF? Excellent work and an amusing note. Cheers . . . David

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• BoisBarb (4288)
• [2008-09-22 10:43]

Une ambiance à la limite du réel superbement réalisé, un vrai bonheur de s'y plonger
BoisBarb