Nature's Power to Heal After What One Sees in Wonder (Petrified Forest National Park)
While standing at a roadside pullout and overlook along the Blue Mesa Scenic Drive and looking to the east across badlands and eroded formations. What I wanted to capture with this image was two things: one was the shapes present in the badlands to my front. Another was kind of like a layering but not just to the landscape, but also in the badlands themselves. In one way, a person could look across the history of this part of the planet with the different eons of time layering one upon the other with the different minerals and elements present. I felt that angling my Nikon SLR camera slightly downward helped to create a sweeping view across this landscape. But I also wanted to keep a little bit of the blue skies above as a color complement to the earth-tones present in the lower portion of the image. I later worked with control points in DxO PhotoLab 4 and then made some adjustments to bring out the contrast, saturation and brightness I wanted for the final image.
Nature's Power to Heal After What One Sees in Wonder (Petrified Forest National Park)
While standing at a roadside pullout and overlook along the Blue Mesa Scenic Drive and looking to the east across badlands and eroded formations. What I wanted to capture with this image was two things: one was the shapes present in the badlands to my front. Another was kind of like a layering but not just to the landscape, but also in the badlands themselves. In one way, a person could look across the history of this part of the planet with the different eons of time layering one upon the other with the different minerals and elements present. I felt that angling my Nikon SLR camera slightly downward helped to create a sweeping view across this landscape. But I also wanted to keep a little bit of the blue skies above as a color complement to the earth-tones present in the lower portion of the image. I later worked with control points in DxO PhotoLab 4 and then made some adjustments to bring out the contrast, saturation and brightness I wanted for the final image.