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saltlake cactus


saltlake cactus
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Copyright: david beebee (bboss) Gold Star Critiquer/Gold Star Workshop Editor/Gold Note Writer [C: 258 W: 111 N: 466] (3512)
Genre: Places
Medium: Color
Date Taken: 2001
Categories: Nature
Camera: Nikon F3, 35-200mm Nikkor
Photo Version: Original Version
Theme(s): Salar de Uyuni [view contributor(s)]
Date Submitted: 2005-01-08 13:48
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Favorites: 1 [view]
Points: 10
[Note Guidelines] Photographer's Note
The Salar de Uyuni is really a weird place, not only an immense salt lake, but also with cacti, volcanoes, flamingoes, geysers, all at an altitude of around 4000m. It is like being on a different planet.
This is taken from the Isla de pescadores, a little island in a sea of salt. I liked the shape of the cactus, which seems like it escaped from a cowboy film. I think it was about 10ft tall.

tech -scanned from fuji film, polariser
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To anil-ahuja: thanksbboss 1 02-06 05:46
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Good framing. Nice diagonal on the bottom, opposing the horizon. The deep blue of the sky is amazing..

best,
anton

Great, I very much ,like this picture, the white against the incredible blue..

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  • Hauke Gold Star Critiquer/Silver Workshop Editor [C: 168 W: 11 N: 1] (2)
  • [2005-01-09 11:09]

You're safe here at the border, guy... Well done, David, with the diagonal in front giving more depth to the picture. Incredible colours, good idea to stress them by unsing the polarizer. Quite interesting the way on the main subject being a little bit 'underexposed' and 'blurred'. Me, I should save the idea to my mind.

Very nice photo David. The only problrm in this composition is the cacti being in dark. It would be nice to try and get more details on this since it is so close and forms the first point of viewer's excursion into the frame.

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  • Luko Gold Star Critiquer/Gold Star Workshop Editor/Gold Note Writer [C: 2717 W: 504 N: 2896] (13617)
  • [2005-02-11 6:51]

A cowboy film you say, exactly. What comes to mind?
"dzing-ding-a-ling raindrops keep-a fallin' on my head" Newman and Redford, Butch Cassidy and the Sundance kid coming down a train lost in the bolivian desert...

I like very much the presence of the presence of the cacti in the foreground, not just because of the cowboy reference but also because it give much depth and scale reference.

A landscape that brings mood, very nice.

Hi David
This place is not in Oruro Departement. It is in Potosi departement. Can you change it to improve TE organisation.
Thanks
JP

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