Warm Delicate

Part in shadow, part in sun, Delicate Arch rises a masterwork among an almost alien landscape of wonders late on a summer evening, in Arches National Park, near Moab, Utah.

 

This is a long exposure using a Singh-Ray 10-Stop filter, and embracing all the warming effect that filter can provide (with some more in post since I was having fun with this one) coupled with the beautiful natural light as sunset neared. I really like this image extra warm, and left the sky overexposed a bit here too, because those attributes to me accentuate the otherworldliness (or should I say Martian-ness) of the scene.

 

Sometimes when traveling around this red rock country of the American southwest, you can almost imagine you're on Mars. And just think how fun it would be if such an amazing arch as this was ever captured on Mars in an image from one of our rovers. The internet might blow up with wishful theorizing that the arch was a monument from an ancient extraterrestrial civilization rather than the beautiful happenstance of natural processes of water, ice and wind.

 

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