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Ken Watkins
11-22-2011, 10:56 AM
Probably one of Southern Africa's more famous cliffs. This is taken in Gonarazhou National Park, Zimbabwe, 9th June 2009.

This was about the only time sun came out while we camped on the opposite bank, nothing beats tents when it is raining:bg3:

EOS MkIIn

28-300mm at 60mm

F9, ISO 200, 1/640

It really is this red

Brendan Dozier
11-22-2011, 11:14 PM
Wonderful cliff formation, Ken, like the the warm colors, and the bands with greenery compliment them well. The puffy clouds are a nice touch to composition.

Robert Amoruso
11-23-2011, 02:16 PM
Very much reminds me of the southwest in the US Ken.

Compositionally, I would suggest cropping at the right to make the rock face continuous from edge to edge. I feel this strengthens the image's impact by not interrupting the monolithic look of the rock face with the drop off on the right.

Jay Gould
11-23-2011, 03:12 PM
Agree with Robert comments; I would also remove the dark spot at the bottom edge near the RHC.

Rachel Hollander
11-23-2011, 09:41 PM
Ken - I agree with all of the above. Nicely done.

TFS,
Rachel

Ken Watkins
11-24-2011, 02:22 AM
Thanks everybody for your comments and suggestions, here is a repost using Roberts crop suggestion which also solved the "dark spot" two birds with one stone:bg3:

Robert Amoruso
11-24-2011, 01:23 PM
Yes Ken, that is what I had in mind.

Andrew McLachlan
11-24-2011, 05:17 PM
Ken, the repost is works better with Robert's suggestions applied. Lovely cliff and colors too!

Dennis "Curly" Buchner
11-26-2011, 01:42 PM
Good Comp Ken and I do like the repost better also

Morkel Erasmus
11-28-2011, 07:08 AM
A place I am also dying to see...:e3
The repost takes it to another level. Nice exposure and clarity on the cliffs...

Andrew Aveley
11-30-2011, 02:14 PM
Ken , this repost rocks ) Also on my to visit list :):t3