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Photographer’s Note

High deserts are above 2000 feet/600 m. In this area most of the water comes from snowfall, Mt Bachelor still has 150"/330cm of snow. In fact it snowed today. If you're in the area, visit the High Desert Museum. The living history program allows you to see how settlers lived in the 1880s. You might be able to churn butter, help with cheese making or chop wood. 'Pioneers; tell stories about their lives.

A part of ther Great Basin High Desrt is just South of here. The basin is defined by a watershed that does not drain into the sea. It is bounded by the Sierras and the Wasatch Mountains and includes the Great Salt Lake, in Utah and Mono Lake in Califoirnia

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zmey (7244) 2008-04-19 20:25

hello pat,

good evening to you from the east coast. a beautiful scene you have gifte us here. love the warmth of light and the low hanging sky.

with warm regards,
kristaps

bakes888 (18101) 2008-04-19 21:16

Hi Pat. Wonderful photo. Excellent clarity and colours. I love the way you composed to make a showpiece of the fence. Beautiful sky also. Thanks for sharing.
Cheers, Paul.

kiwi_explorer (12195) 2008-04-19 21:33

Hi Pat,
The railing created a nice framing to this beautiful winter scene. Good depth and overall contrast. Well captured and composed with very good image and color quality. Well done! tfs
Cheers,
Renier

leo61 (43219) 2008-04-19 21:38

Hi Pat!
Clever composition with this fence .It gives more interest to the foreground.It`s a very good exposure with great depth and nice,bright colors.I like the contrast with the sky,theseclouds look great.
Regards,Leo

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besnard (30492) 2008-04-19 23:03

Bonjour Pat
Un joli cliché au format bien choisi pour mettre en valeur la beauté du paysage. Les couleurs sont magnifiques et l'ensemble très agréable à regarder.
Merci pour le partage et bon dimanche.
Nicole

dareco (17104) 2008-04-20 0:40

A beautiful scene!! I love this pov, the colors and sharpness. Superb!! TFS

meltemi (9746) 2008-04-20 0:46

Hello Pat,
nice composition here using a great point of view to create depth and balance. Excellent image with clarity, awesome colours wonderful light and much details in it. Great, full of calm atmosphere - like sunday morning! Perfect work, congratulations!
Have a nice sunday.
Stella

robertosalguero (2763) 2008-04-20 0:59

Hola Pat,

Good to see you posting again. I missed you excellent images. I see you are still getting snow in Oregon, just like we did this weekend. This image is excellent with the diagonal of the fence nicely framing the foreground. Good light, sharpness and colours. The view is pristine around here I see. Thanks Pat :-)

Roberto

Floydian (30970) 2008-04-20 1:22

Hello Patricia,
It's been a long time, hope you are doing fine and found some new energy to keep on posting. This one must be close to home i suppose. The area looks wonderful, but more impressive is the light you caught here and the depth that lies in to the image. The river leads us to the far background were snow is still lying on the peaks and on top of that a great blue sky with a majestic cloud, how wonderful.
Colors are crisp and bright with excellent sharpness and i see a new baby D300 in your hands....well, that can't go wrong ;-)
Regards, Henk

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feather (49858) 2008-04-20 2:03

I was just on the point of mailing you to see if you were well and you beat me to it with this fantastic image. The light is excellent and the detail, depth and clarity are incredible. The touches of snow and patches of red all add a diferent dimension to the scene, which is topped off by an amazing sky with wonderful clouds. Good work
Kath

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cherryripe (18869) 2008-04-20 9:06

Hi Pat
I just love that clear light and the way the scenery is so sharp. The colours stand out really well and the clouds add lots of atmosphere.
Regards
Nikki

pboehringer (770) 2008-04-20 9:51

Pat,
what a nice surprise to find some new post from you here. Is this your view from your oregonian home? First moments to get acquainted with your newest baby - D300? At least it is a perfect replacement for the D200 that was stolen during your last Europe trip.
A wonderful landscape that with the vertical frame allows the inclusion of the little pine tree in the foreground, the meadow with the slow flowing creek in the middle and finally the snow capped mountain in the background. What mountain is that anyway? What a beautiful light and great clouds.
I hope that we will have exactly these conditions next weekend!!!
See you soon, Peter

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carper (64546) 2008-04-20 11:44

very nice one Pat, nice to see you,
very good composition here, the pov is fine and the details of this landscape are good, fine quality job, have a nice evening Pat.... It's here evening now.
gr. jaap

MarianneS (14262) 2008-04-20 11:58

Hi Pat,
It is a pleasure to see your last composition, full of light and wonderful colours!
The whole is very sharp and the vertical frame functions very well, adding more deep, if possible, to the view.
Very good job!
Regards,
Marianne

josepmarin (33785) 2008-04-20 11:59

Hi Pat,
This one is really a beautiful composition, well organized, with many elegance and with a natural and magnificent wild landscape.
The quality of the image and of the colors is extraordinary, I suppose that the D300 has something of responsibility in the capture, though your photographic skill is very high.
It is a photo very, very beautiful.
HLJ
Josep

stelli (2941) 2008-04-20 14:15

Incredible colors, POV and framing! Thank you for sharing! Regards Stella

edytungkal (4519) 2008-04-20 19:08

Hi Pat,
Its a beautiful shot after quiet so long, i see the vertical view is the best choice to include the golden colours on fg and beautiful sky, good lighting and nice colours.
And i feel sorry to hear about your Mom's poor condition, hope she will be ok.
Thanks and soon to see another shot from you.

greetings
daniel

gunbud (27763) 2008-04-20 19:41

Hi Pat,
The foreground fence and background sky are perfect natural frames for this beautiful view of the gentle river valley. Great light with lovely clear colors and exacting details to this wonderful high desert shot. Your polarizer did a fine job on this dramatic sky.
Regards, Tom
P.S. All the best to your mom

John_F_Kennedy (31197) 2008-04-21 0:58

A very pretty landscape. I love the brown grass. Good colour with a nice composition.
Best wishes,
Achim

Gerrit (35593) 2008-04-21 1:14

Hi Patricia,
beautiful landscape and fantastic light and colours. A beautiful sky too, although I would have cropt the top blue.
Regards, gerrit

portmanndominic (2388) 2008-04-21 2:08

Hello Pat

Good POV and composiotion from the first scene to the Hills , the light is beautiful , smooth colors , useful note
have a good day
best regards
Dominic

Davidwh (3652) 2008-04-21 6:16

Hi Pat,
Wow this one is a real picture postcard for sure!The colours are just great.....deep and strong, the exposure is just perfect throughout and the quality of the detail is top class.A real beauty I must say....have a great week!
Regards, david

fulvio52 (8314) 2008-04-21 11:15

Wonderful shot, Pat. Truly wonderful!
THE LIGHT is awesome, so are those colors, depth of field and definition. But it's the atmosphere you managed to capture, what really turns this picture into something different... it oozes Oregon! Awesome!
Have a great day, I'll be seeing you around.
Ciao,
Fulvio.

Emile (19883) 2008-04-21 16:10

Hola Pat.
Welcome back to TE after so long.
Wonderful composition, beautiful landscape with the wooden fence in the fg creating a good depth. Lovely curved river and nice view of the valley and snow covered mountains, the sky with the white clouds looks great. Well done. TFS.
Cheers.

delkoo (34158) 2008-04-22 0:30

hi patricia
I have been missing your shots, glad you are posting again, The colour and clarity is very good, allowing us to see everything so clearly that it's almost like being there.
new camera???

regards
didier

-:)))

scobert (5333) 2008-04-22 13:41

Hi Pat,
From everything that I have heard, Bend has a climate very similiar to Denver's, perhaps a little milder. The coastal part of your state has gorgeous scenery, but I couldn't handle weeks of overcast weather at a time. I need sunshine! I am willing to bet that you have an abundance of wildlife here. The Bend area is one of the best kept secrets in the USA. This is a great shot and gives me an excellent feel for this ecosystem. Well done!
Stan

Angshu (33551) 2008-04-23 0:32

Hello Pat
It was a pleasant surprise to see the new posts from you, in fact three of them, since I last visited your gallery. How are your parents now?
I see you've got a new camera as well. Beautiful view & the clarity, sharpness, colours etc. are so pleasing that it almost jumps out. An excellent picture.
Best Regards
Angshu

marietom (31796) 2008-04-23 2:03

Hello Pat,

Belle composition, aux magnifiques couleurs. Ce paysage est superbe !
Bonne soirée
Marie

avene (10940) 2008-04-23 4:03

hello Pat,
love the colours here, I've always associated the rust and golden brown with desert. beautiful textures, and the light snow makes the scene quite surreal for me in a fascinating kind of way. great use of fense in the foreground to create depth. excellent photo, my compliments.

with best regards,
Kristine

JCG (25147) 2008-04-23 13:26

Hi Pat,

I like much the clearness of foreground and the hot colors of this splendid landscape. The choice of the format of the image is judicious. This pretty sky brings a good relief. Very pleasant, thank you Pat.

With all my friendships and with soon,

Jean-Charles

xuaxo (5693) 2008-04-23 15:56

Olá Pat,
I was away from TE for a few days, therefore only today I see your new posts. I'm happy to see you back on TE; I've checked your page often; finally here you are!
This is a great picture, amazing light, beautiful composition. What else can I say? Even the fence looks nice here.
SAA,
F

jwmunro (6571) 2008-04-28 11:14

Hello Pat -

Good to see you back and I do hope your mom is doing better. This part of the life cycle really sucks!

A very nice image that dramatizes the extremes of the high desert. And the fact that there are woodlands in the high desert that are really nice. The stream leads us into the image and the snows adds contrast. the wonderful light though makes it worth photographing and with standing the cold. Well done.

Thank you fro sharing.

John

Benedict (7062) 2008-04-28 22:26

hi pat,
golden colors of winter- a golden capture! the FG fence adds the beauty. a flawless work!
my 3 K's...
Benedict

pablominto (40402) 2008-05-02 6:17

Hello Pat,
Attractive sky, those cloud formations are attention magnets!
Excellent colours and details in the late autumn landscape, and the image seems to be pin sharp in all distances...
The diagonal railing makes a fine foreground interest, and helps creating a fine sense of depth!
Greetings,
Pablo -

Henryk_Bilor (20365) 2008-05-25 15:06

Hi Pat
I doesn`t look like a typical desert, but a very pleasant place. Lovely view from behind the barrier, excellent light and colours.
Have a nice evening.

speedymanu (1588) 2009-01-05 12:25

Hello Pat

what a view. You've skillfully dealt with that overwhelming sky and the inclusin of the fence adds depth to your composition.

Best wishes for 2009

Emmanuel

danos (32198) 2009-04-08 10:44

Hello Pat,
what a nice and picturesque shot of this spectacular landscape view! A shot that looks like as a painting with the little creek to penetrate the scene and the brilliant light to make it to beautiful.Well done.

Regards,Danos