Palouse Brush Strokes

[Stephen Cunliffe]

Captured at dawn from Steptoe Butte. I have deliberately left the tones close to the pastels of the moment, and ignored the temptation to dramatize with more contrast. Would be interested to know what others might do.
Canon 50D
EF400mm f/4 DO IS USM
ISO 200
f/11 @ 1/13s.

[Mike Fuhr]

I really like this one. It has a nice abstract feel to it and agree about the contrast. Might crop a smidge off the bottom to remove that narrow strip of purple. Not sure about the tracks in the upper left...

[D. Robert Franz]

Really like it as posted. Almost looks like a painting.. This would look great printed BIG!

[Dave Mills]

Hi Stephen, Nice layers of color positioned on a slight diagonal. Soft light adding warmth to the image. I was playing with cropping the top band and like the image a bit more but otherwise a pleasing image...

[Roman Kurywczak]

Hey Stephen,
The soft pallete here is very appropriate but you could also go with the more contrasty version and it would probably work too. I feel that either crop presented above works.....but the Op does too. Nicely done!

[Robert Amoruso]

Stephen,

You could try a local contrast enhancement (file:///C:/Users/WILDSC%7E1/AppData/Local/Temp/moz-screenshot-2.pnghttp://www.birdphotographers.net/forums/showthread.php?t=20434) as that can be more subtle and give a nice definition to the lines in the image.

[Ilija Dukovski]

I like it very much, great advice above. The waving lines and the color comp are excellent.

[Dennis "Curly" Buchner]

Awesome colors and layers, great capture