Blue hour abstract at Mesquite Dunes

[Vieri Bottazzini]

Beautiful Mesquite Dunes, in Death Valley (USA), are always a great source of inspiration for me and lend themselves to long exposure abstract images perfectly.



Leica SL, Voigtlander 15mm, Formatt-Hitech Firecrest filters. Thanks for viewing, best regards

Vieri

[Eric Myrvaagnes]

Ooh! Beautiful!

[Rajan Parrikar]

Excellent, Vieri!

[nma]

This one says it all. Congratulations

[Chairman Bill]

Beautifully done

[KMRennie]

Beautiful image improved by the warm/ cold colours. Ken

[nma]

This one says it all. Congratulations

[JNB_Rare]

Gorgeous.

[farbschlurf]

Thought of snow at very first look. Amazing picture.

[Jeremy Roussak]

It's gorgeous, Vieri, but what does the long exposure give you?

Jeremy

[praja343]

Beautiful composition, colors and tones. Perhaps some cropping of the near foreground dunes may focus the attention on the image.

[Telecaster]

It's gorgeous, Vieri, but what does the long exposure give you?

Gives you a natural smoothing filter over the sky…and over the dunes as well if there's wind.

-Dave-

[Peter McLennan]

Beautiful composition, colors and tones. Perhaps some cropping of the near foreground dunes may focus the attention on the image.

No.

[maddogmurph]

Classic time/location.

[Vieri Bottazzini]

Ooh! Beautiful!

Thank you very much Eric, glad you enjoyed it

Excellent, Vieri!

Thank you very much Rajan!

This one says it all. Congratulations

Thank you very much indeed!

Beautifully done

Thank you very much Bill!

Beautiful image improved by the warm/ cold colours. Ken

Thank you Ken! Yes, I agree with you that colours helped here, I gave it a try in B&W just to see how it looked and it didn't work for me at all.

Gorgeous.

Thank you very much indeed!

Thought of snow at very first look. Amazing picture.

Thank you very much, glad you enjoyed it!

It's gorgeous, Vieri, but what does the long exposure give you?

Jeremy

Gives you a natural smoothing filter over the sky…and over the dunes as well if there's wind.

-Dave-

Thank you Jeremy! Long exposure gave me what dave said - the clouds were moving very slowly, so to make them look like that I needed 12 minutes of exposure...

Beautiful composition, colors and tones. Perhaps some cropping of the near foreground dunes may focus the attention on the image.

No.

I gotta agree with Peter here, to me the foreground and the relation foreground / background are what make the image, Cropping it out would kill it for me, but I appreciate it that you might feel differently about it

Classic time/location.

Indeed! Mesquite after sunset is amazing

Best regards,

Vieri

[mistymornings99]

Terrific! The touch of warm colour in the distance takes the eye through the image excellently, and the foreground details are very enjoyable.

[Jeremy Roussak]

Thank you Jeremy! Long exposure gave me what dave said - the clouds were moving very slowly, so to make them look like that I needed 12 minutes of exposure...

I understand. To be honest, we get cloud formations that look very similar to that so often over here that it hadn't occurred to me that they were produced by a long exposure. But then, we get cloud formations of all kinds over here, with depressing frequency.

Jeremy

[Vieri Bottazzini]

Terrific! The touch of warm colour in the distance takes the eye through the image excellently, and the foreground details are very enjoyable.

Thank you very much David, I am glad you enjoyed the photograph and the little warmth, I felt it really added depth to the whole image

I understand. To be honest, we get cloud formations that look very similar to that so often over here that it hadn't occurred to me that they were produced by a long exposure. But then, we get cloud formations of all kinds over here, with depressing frequency.

Jeremy

Hello Jeremy,

  on your remark about getting cloud formations of all kinds... and sorry that they appear with depressing frequency! Where are you based?

Best regards,

Vieri

[Jeremy Roussak]

Hello Jeremy,

  on your remark about getting cloud formations of all kinds... and sorry that they appear with depressing frequency! Where are you based?

Manchester, Vieri (tthe original one, in England, not the new, flashy fake that Hollywood likes so much). I'm looking out of my window at clouds very similar to the ones in your photo. It rains a lot here. As the late Humphrey Littleton said, introducing the place on a radio programme, "Mancunians say that what Manchester has today, the rest of the world will have tomorrow. So if you're listening, rest of the world, it's drizzle".

Jeremy

[Vieri Bottazzini]

Manchester, Vieri (tthe original one, in England, not the new, flashy fake that Hollywood likes so much). I'm looking out of my window at clouds very similar to the ones in your photo. It rains a lot here. As the late Humphrey Littleton said, introducing the place on a radio programme, "Mancunians say that what Manchester has today, the rest of the world will have tomorrow. So if you're listening, rest of the world, it's drizzle".

Jeremy

Thank you very much Jeremy, now I see what you mean! Well, in Death Valley drizzle is somewhat rarer thank i Manchester, thankfully... perhaps Humphrey Littleton's forecast didn't reach that far!

Best regards,

Vieri