John Holbrook
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Thursday’s Task: Scenic Spin.
This week: Valleys. Your interpretation.
Monument Valley Tribal Park, AZ
Goblin Valley State Park, UT
Valley of Fire State Park, NV
Valley of the Gods, UT
Thursday’s Task
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Thursday’s Task: Scenic Spin.
This week: Valleys. Your interpretation.
Monument Valley Tribal Park, AZ
Goblin Valley State Park, UT
Valley of Fire State Park, NV
Valley of the Gods, UT
AlanLichty
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Delightful topic and some excellent examples from your collections.
Ken Rennie
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From last month’s trip to Northern Spain. Ken
John Holbrook
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Ken, very beautiful valley landscapes you have shared—and I thank you for doing so! I cannot choose a favorite—both are well created compositions. I love the light and shadows captured in each. The stormy sky in the first adds drama to the first image. Nice. I also love the green forest and field below the jagged peaks above in the second image—including the stone building adds a bit of color to the scene. Very nice.
AlanLichty
Moderator
A few river valleys from my stash.
Columbia River Gorge
John Day River Valley - Cathedral Rock
Palouse River Covered Bridge
Snake River from Signal Mountain
Gros Ventre River valley
North Fork of the Smith River
Columbia River Gorge
John Day River Valley - Cathedral Rock
Palouse River Covered Bridge
Snake River from Signal Mountain
Gros Ventre River valley
North Fork of the Smith River
Kyle Jones
Moderator
I just did a complete re-edit of this image so figured I should share it here. Here is Yosemite Valley.
John Holbrook
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Alan, beautiful valleys you’ve posted—thank you! I especially love the blues of the Columbia River Gorge—gorgeous! (Sorry, had too!) I favor the John Day River Valley as well—a wonderful landscape and good composition. The Snake River is another interesting composition—love all the layers! A definite favorite is the Gros Ventre River valley for its winding stream and rocky banks, colorful autumn trees, rounded hills, and clouds of blue above. The North Fork of the Smith River is another very nice capture. The foreground hill and valley below, and the winding river bank certainly adds motion to the composition. The far mountains of evergreens and autumn trees complete this beautiful image. Again thanks for these images today!
John Holbrook
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Kyle, thank you for this exceptional landscape you’ve shared. Wow! Love the rocky foreground, the blue mountains beyond—with waterfall, and gorgeous night sky revealed with this exposure. Love all the elements in this composition and thanks for sharing this image with us again.
A few from my stash. Some of the locations have already been taken.
Blue Valley, aka the skyline overlook, UT
Valley view, Yosemite
Valley of Fire
Monument Valley
Blue Valley, aka the skyline overlook, UT
Valley view, Yosemite
Valley of Fire
Monument Valley
John Holbrook
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Larry, excellent valley landscapes you shared—and it is much appreciated! I especially favor your wonderful B&W Monument Valley landscapes! I really like the Mitten and the Tree image, an interesting and very well composed. Very nice and my favorite. I also favor your first Monument Valley image. I love the snow captured in this image and this really works well in B&W. Very nice. The Valley of Fire panorama is gorgeous and this composition definitely captures is splendor. I also like the Colorado National Monument landscape, especially with the shadows cast across the scene. I’m betting the colorful Meadow Lake is popular with landscape photographers—and fishermen too! A beautiful scene well captured.
John Holbrook
Well-Known Member
Jameel, four perfect and beautiful landscapes featuring valleys! Thank you for sharing them with us. The first image, Blue Valley is a gorgeous sunset, I love the limited color palette below. Very nice! The Valley View image is perfect in composition and capture. I love the water, the mist, the clouds in this capture—wonderful image and my favorite! (I keep scrolling back to it!) Valley of Fire is a wonderful composition too, and the gorgeous evening sky adds so much to this perfect capture. I also love your last image, Monument Valley, another well-timed capture. I love the mitten shadow on the more distant mitten. I like the sky occupying much of this composition, this works well.
Speaking for myself, and perhaps others, I would like to add that although a location may have already had an image posted, it is refreshing to see other photographer’s inspired compositions as well. I love seeing their interpretation of similar scenes and it is often an inspiration to visit them again.
Thanks for posting these beautiful images Jameel!