OUCH! Photo | TrekEarth

Photographer’s Note

Red Rock Canyon is located outside of Las Vegas and is a quiet and pleasant place, the perfect getaway from the sensory assault that is experienced when visiting Las Vegas.
Driving about 15 minutes away from Las Vegas the scenery becomes calm and absolutely gorgeous. The rock formations are visible, there’s very little noise other than that made by nature and the air smells better, however it feels even hotter than Vegas.
Although I have visited the city of sin before this was my first visit to RRC and it was beautiful, we hiked for a little bit (the heat got to us quickly we’re used to cool ocean breezes) and saw beautiful cacti and even a few tortoises.
More info on this area can be found in http://www.nv.blm.gov/redrockcanyon/ and http://www.redrockcanyonlv.org/.

I must add that this was taken with a new camera and I’m still learning it. After several years of use and abuse I dropped and broke my beloved Olympus 770UZ. Photo cropped, contrast adjusted and sharpened. I am not accustomed to this crazy sunshine and used the polorizer filter but I'm not too certain about the results.

cacamera, wgreis, stego, xuaxo, emjleclercq, cfreire, robertosalguero, axiotea, riclopes, lucasgalodoido, pboehringer, plimrn has marked this note useful

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robertosalguero (2763) 2007-06-08 3:18

Yeah, not the plant I would enjoy falling over on. Interesting torns in this minimalist composition. The contrast of colours in the background is very nice. The red cliff is very interesting. Well composed image with good exposure and nice details. Thanks Cristina.

Roberto

wgreis (5978) 2007-06-09 9:24

Oi Cristina,
sempre gosto muito de fotos com baixa profundidade de campo para destaque do primeiro plano.
Esta sua é um bom exemplo e deixa sugestivo de que você está em uma área desértica.
Parabéns,
Wagner.

stego (22350) 2007-06-11 15:31

Olá Cristina,
Tens andado desaparecida, não é? Parece que te estás a dar muito bem com a máquina nova, a julgar por esta foto. Está muito bonita e... picante... :-) A nitidez, cores e DOF estão óptimos e o pov muito bem escolhido.
Um abraço, José.

xuaxo (5701) 2007-06-16 17:07

Olá Cristina,
Magnifica imagem, bem representativa dessa zona de desertos.
O que eu gostei mais na zona de Las Vegas foram os desertos. Não gostei da cidade.
F

emjleclercq (14227) 2007-08-26 14:11

Nice close up of this cactus, which I will surely not touch, and a well chosen title.

All the best,

Emmanuel

nmess (2285) 2007-09-15 5:43

though a bit out of focus, the "point" is well seencristina. I've crossed paths with these before and one is well advised to keep clear... in fact.. it makes me a bit nervous just looking.

jurek1951 (25896) 2007-09-16 10:58

Hi Cristina ,
Very well composed and captured photo.the color and the composition of the picture was successfull.
Georg

cak (3809) 2007-09-16 17:18

no water but plant is live

axiotea (16053) 2007-09-23 7:17

Hi Cristina
Interesting variety of cactus well illuminated by the sunlight showing nicely its big thorns! I like its texture and the blurred BG giving more impact to the thorny plant. Luminosity and colors are great too.
Cheers
Marilyn

riclopes (32967) 2007-09-25 1:45

Gosto muito desta, Cristina. Adoro este tipo de lugares inóspitos do planeta e esta faz-me lembrar a baixa califórnia, no México. As cores estão lindas e o fundo desfocado ficou perfeito. Vê lá se voltas mais ao activo e nos mostras mais imagens daqui ;-)
Ricardo

lucasgalodoido (16583) 2007-10-02 13:02

Olá Cristina!
Muito boa essa macro, o fundo desfocado ficou bom tambéme o mais importante, com cores quentes combinado com o assunto!
Parabéns e Abraço!

pboehringer (770) 2007-10-06 6:00

Cristina,
OUCH, that was exactly my first feeling when I saw this image even as a thumbnail. The shallow DOF contributes for a very good presentation of these thorns. It gives an enhanced feeling for the contrast between the cactus and surrounding warm colors.
Regards, Peter

sothy81 (8518) 2007-10-10 11:25

I can see you are showing things from Nevada. I've been there and I can see beautiful mountains and some plants like this one you show. Very nice. Sothy

plimrn (19600) 2008-12-03 7:22

Hi Christina,
Amazing sharpness in the cactus, while good DOF gives a great colors in the BG in a non-competitive way.
The strong colors in the BG look like you used the polarizer effectively; 90 degree angle to the light is supposed to be best.
Hope all is well with you, I'm guessing you're just too busy with other, hopefully fun, things to have time to take pictures!!
HLJ, Pat