3280 Desert Sunset
Special stormy light on the desert and the Ajo mountains. Ajo, Arizona, USA. 11 February 2020
2024-25: Judge commended out of 2000 entries in Photocrowd 'Landscapes Untouched by Mankind' in November 2024. Judge merit award out of 995 entries in Photocrowd 'HIdden Gems Locations' in June 2025.
2020-21: May 2020: reviewed by Rick LePage of On1 software in Photo Critique:' I like the color in this quite a bit, and it is a nice, pleasing photo overall. I agree with some of Norry’s comments, although I’d love to see this with the camera (or the shooter) moved/pointed a bit more to the left, maybe to lose the two cacti on the right, and get more of the mountains.' Norry Cutler's comment: 'The sky and the cacti have strong visual weight, much less the mountains. A tighter crop to exclude a large part of the sky and so to bring into attention the cacti set against the distant Ajo mountains, now brought near by the crop: making the cacti and the mountains the visual objects that capture attention of the eyes, to create a pleasing interesting image for me.'. Placed crowd 1st and judge10th out of 141 entries in Photocrowd 'Saguaro Cactus' competition in July 2021
3280 Desert Sunset
Special stormy light on the desert and the Ajo mountains. Ajo, Arizona, USA. 11 February 2020
2024-25: Judge commended out of 2000 entries in Photocrowd 'Landscapes Untouched by Mankind' in November 2024. Judge merit award out of 995 entries in Photocrowd 'HIdden Gems Locations' in June 2025.
2020-21: May 2020: reviewed by Rick LePage of On1 software in Photo Critique:' I like the color in this quite a bit, and it is a nice, pleasing photo overall. I agree with some of Norry’s comments, although I’d love to see this with the camera (or the shooter) moved/pointed a bit more to the left, maybe to lose the two cacti on the right, and get more of the mountains.' Norry Cutler's comment: 'The sky and the cacti have strong visual weight, much less the mountains. A tighter crop to exclude a large part of the sky and so to bring into attention the cacti set against the distant Ajo mountains, now brought near by the crop: making the cacti and the mountains the visual objects that capture attention of the eyes, to create a pleasing interesting image for me.'. Placed crowd 1st and judge10th out of 141 entries in Photocrowd 'Saguaro Cactus' competition in July 2021