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Desert Rose

PostPosted: Fri Jul 23, 2010 2:38 pm
by agriffiths
I captured this whilst on an aerial assignment in the Pilbra. We flew over it the morning before and flagged the location so that we could return the following day and capture it in the afternoon light. This way I could be sure the colours would have the most punch.

http://agriffiths.smugmug.com/Photography/Forums/13038647_AoaMu#944283069_ofzF2-A-LB

You can't quite see it but there's a decrepid old fence line leading from the top down. It really adds to the impact of this image but unfortunately gets lost in the web size reduction.

Cheers
Andrew

Re: Desert Rose

PostPosted: Fri Jul 23, 2010 3:44 pm
by Wigspotter
Hi Andrew,

That is beautiful.

Can't help asking how you're getting the night/city lights views on your website. Are they super high iso?

Cheers,

C

Re: Desert Rose

PostPosted: Fri Jul 23, 2010 7:32 pm
by stubbsy
Andrew

Sublime image - one to be very proud of.

Re: Desert Rose

PostPosted: Sat Jul 24, 2010 10:15 am
by agriffiths
Thanks for the kind words :)

I'm happy with the way it turned out, especially as there is a bit of a story behind it. The story involves a light aircraft and the rather dramatic loss of an entire window assembly at 4000 ft. This resulted in us changing our flight plan for an immediate landing, which took us out of our planed flight path and over this stretch of coast that we would otherwise have missed.

Re: Desert Rose

PostPosted: Sat Jul 24, 2010 12:00 pm
by phillipb
agriffiths wrote:Thanks for the kind words :)

I'm happy with the way it turned out, especially as there is a bit of a story behind it. The story involves a light aircraft and the rather dramatic loss of an entire window assembly at 4000 ft. This resulted in us changing our flight plan for an immediate landing, which took us out of our planed flight path and over this stretch of coast that we would otherwise have missed.


No wonder it's so clear, the dirty window glass was missing :lol:
Seriously though, great shot.

Re: Desert Rose

PostPosted: Sat Jul 24, 2010 3:41 pm
by radar
that is an awesome capture, the shapes, colours, composition, great photograph and good story to boot.

cheers,

André

Re: Desert Rose

PostPosted: Sat Jul 24, 2010 6:43 pm
by biggerry
Thats an amazing shot, at first glance one does not realise what it is or the scale, however a closer inspection reveals it!

The colour saturation is just stunning!

story involves a light aircraft and the rather dramatic loss of an entire window assembly at 4000 ft


she'll be right, they are just there to keep the wind out :rotfl2:

I am not gonna ask any more questions, cause I ain't gonna like teh answers and stuff like that raises some interesting questions :cough: :cough:

Re: Desert Rose

PostPosted: Sat Jul 24, 2010 9:44 pm
by glamy
Beautiful picture. One to be proud of :up: . Colours are amazing and the composition works really well.

Re: Desert Rose

PostPosted: Sat Jul 24, 2010 10:52 pm
by the foto fanatic
Wonderful photo!

:D

Re: Desert Rose

PostPosted: Sun Jul 25, 2010 12:48 pm
by Geoff M
Sublime.

Looks like an abstract painting at first glance rather than mother nature. A large print of this would look fantastic, so much to see.

Re: Desert Rose

PostPosted: Sun Jul 25, 2010 9:31 pm
by aim54x
That is amazing!

I looked at it and thought wow...it looks like a tree. Those greens and blues stand out so much!

Re: Desert Rose

PostPosted: Sun Jul 25, 2010 10:07 pm
by Sandy Feet
Congratulation on an absolutly stunning image.

Re: Desert Rose

PostPosted: Sun Jul 25, 2010 10:32 pm
by Fortigurn
Good grief, that is utterly amazing. I thought it was an oil painting before I read the text. :shock: The colours are unbelievable, and they look deliberately composed. Even after I read your text I had to look at it again two or three times to convince myself of what I was seeing. It's a compellingly beautiful shot.

Re: Desert Rose

PostPosted: Mon Jul 26, 2010 10:14 am
by agriffiths
Thanks everyone. Mother nature is the artist.... I just did my best to record it on a little 36x24 sensor. The colours and landscape in our country are stagerring. One could spend their entire lives traveling through the outback and not even come close to capturing what it has to offer.

Actually the more I look at it the more it reminds me of my childhood. My grandfather was an artist and I was always tinkering around in his studio peeking over at the colour palets he'd have lying around the studio. The pigment would seemingly be placed around the colour plate at random. I now realise there was a very structured order to the way he positioned each colour. Kind of reminds me him :) .

Re: Desert Rose

PostPosted: Mon Jul 26, 2010 3:17 pm
by surenj
:bowdown: :bowdown: wow~!!

Re: Desert Rose

PostPosted: Fri Jul 30, 2010 11:10 pm
by Killakoala
I can only reiterate what the others have said and add, stunning image. :)

Re: Desert Rose

PostPosted: Sat Jul 31, 2010 5:50 pm
by norwest
Words can't do this shot justice. Superb scene and an amazing eye to spot it. :cheers: