Ripples at White Sands

[Roman Kurywczak]

Haven't posted in a while.....heading to Tanzania next Friday so very busy! This was from my recently completed photo tour to Bosque and White Sands. Got some very nice pink skies a few days there.
Canon 1 D Mark lll with the 28-135mm lens at 21mm for 0.8 sec. at f22 and ISO 400. Split nd filter HH in front of lens.

[Dave Mills]

Hey Roman, The image is nicely divided with soft early light and a pastel sky. The lines in the sand bring you right into the image. Well handled!

[David Thomasson]

Beautiful composition, Roman. I especially like the combination of soft pastels and a few hard textures.

The graceful curve of the horizon is very nice, but the line almost gets lost right along here:

http://img11.imageshack.us/img11/8489/curve1y.jpg

That might stand enhancing just a tad. I masked the edge and painted with white on a soft light layer to brighten below the line, and curves in luminosity mode to slightly darken above the line.

http://img714.imageshack.us/img714/6397/curve.jpg

[Dennis "Curly" Buchner]

Very nice Roman, and have a safe trip.

[Nick Palmieri]

Real nice soft colors.

[Ilija Dukovski]

Really nice patterns and colors. Great one.

[Morkel Erasmus]

stunning simplicity Roman! David's repost enhances the dune edge.
can't believe you're going to Tanzania, I haven't even been there yet and I live closer (technically) :eek:
the dollar does count in your favour though ;) enjoy!!!

[peter delaney]

Hi Roman

gorgeous image , yes the colour is great , but with all those textures ,lines ,H\S in the dunes , I really thought that this would equally look good in B&W.. did this on my laptop so not perfect , but gives the general feeling I was looking for..

i hope you do not mind me playing with your image

[D. Robert Franz]

Very nice image whatever you do to it :D

[denise ippolito]

Roman, It's a gorgeous image. I prefer the color version but the B&W version is also nice. I love the way the lines draw you into the image.This would make a beautiful large print.
Have a great trip and be safe. See you when you get back.:)

[david cramer]

You know it's a fine image when it looks good in both b&w and color. David's repost is a good step. Great texture and flow. Looking forward to your images from this next trip.

[Robert Amoruso]

Roman,

That grass/dirt on the middle right grabs my eye and interrupts the nice flow of the patterns in the FG. I particularly like the subtle pastels of the image.

[Roman Kurywczak]

Thanks all! I will give your correction a shot David as I like the subtle change.....very effective! I also like the conversion Peter!!! Minimizes the distraction Robert was referring to!