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    Default Badlands Landscape

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    Badlands National Park, South Dakota
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    Hi John, Great light along with an interesting composition. I like the way the foreground peak is taking your eye into the scene. I also like the fact you offset the group of hills and minimalized an uninteresting sky.

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    Beautiful image John. Neatly composed frame with some lovely warm light. Might make an interesting B&W IMO.

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    Stark and very well done.
    I would almost lower the saturation (not that it is too saturated), to give it an even more desolate look.

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    John - beautifully seen and captured. I really like the comp and the interplay of shadows and light.

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    Hi John, this is a beautiful composition with very nice lighting over the badlands. Love it!

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    Hey John,
    This is one tough location!!!....and you did very well keeping the balance in the image! My thoughts echo Daves......so very nicely done!

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    I agree with the above comments John. Well done for the reasons mentioned.

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    Thanks Dave, Kaushik, Dan, Rachel, Andrew, Roman, and Robert for your comments, suggestions, and encouragement. Always appreciated! Kaushik, I am going to give the B&W a try.
    It is a challenging place to get enough topography in the frame, without getting "too" much in.

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    superb composition and detail in the whole frame

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    just love the texture, detail, colour and overall composition here John! makes me want to be there!
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    Excellent sense of depth in this image. You've captured 5 distiinct planes of interest giving the image deep perspective. The curving FG plane also leads your eye to the feature plane (your striated hills) A BG plane of more hills adds more interest You then finish with a horizon plane, and your cloud plane of interest. Just a bit of blue sky showing through the clouds would have been perfect. I may have liked a bit more of you FG plane showing and have it a bit further right in your comp... Well done!

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    Awesome John, landscapes like this are not the easiest places to compose, but you nailed it for me.

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