Before the rains

[hminx]

The country showing the effects of a long dry summer.
Its quite sad the amount of detail you have to leave behind when sizing the image for web

[Greg McCary]

Pete it's very beautiful. The composition is nice and the lighting well balanced.

[hminx]

Thanks Greg appreciate the thoughts.

[ksbryan0]

I agree, this is a very appealing composition. While I like the colors, they do seem a bit over-saturated and pulling back on the gold color a touch might put it more in the realm of reality (I'm assuming HDR has been done here, maybe I'm wrong). To me, 80% of the interest is in the right third of the frame. I can see an outstanding vertical image there, with the fence leading to the fissures going up the hills and leading to those outstanding clouds. There is a lot of texture here to explore.

[hminx]

Thanks Ken, the pixelation due to sizing for web seems to have made it a bit more contrasty and thus the colours appear a tad more saturated. This image at the moment is used a wall paper on my iMac and at reasonable resolution appears a lot closer to the scene on the day.