I post this at the risk of being somewhat repetitive. This photograph was made several minutes later than the first one I posted here. The colors changed significantly. I prefer the earlier photograph where the horizon is quite red while the high sky remains cobalt blue. On the other hand, the pastels seen here are ok too. I prefer this perspective. The buttes appear closer together. The sky was featureless - except for color - so I cropped close.

-- Pete Dickson (dickson.pn@pg.com), November 24, 1998

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Equally nice IMO.

-- Paul Lenson (lenson@pci.on.ca), November 24, 1998.

Beautiful!! Wow!!

-- Jason Fobart (jason@fobart.net), November 24, 1998.

This is a picture that U should be proud of!

-- Bahman Farzad (cpgbooks@mindspring.com), November 24, 1998.

The only problem I see is that there seems to be strage white halo outlining the rocks. Is this an unsharp mask artifact? Looking forward to seeing you apply your talents to new images.

-- Larry Korhnak (lvk@gnv.ifas.ufl.edu), December 01, 1998.

WOW my montior must be screwed up.... it shows a very distinct line between each shade of color in the sky..... therefore ruining the colors in the sky....... is anyone else having this problem ???

-- Jerry Owens (DrpSprings@aol.com), December 16, 1998.

Jerry -

I have a monitor that according to the computer displays millions of colors, and i don't see the color banding, however set to thousands of colors I can see slight banding. That however is just an artifact of the color capability of the computer, not necessarily of the quality of the photo. It will only show up on the very gradual shade changes in color. You won't notice it on most normal photos, the colors change too rapidly. Set your computer to 256 shades of gray and the banding should disappear.

Ben

-- Ben Lanterman (benl@!anet-stl.com), December 16, 1998.

- yes white halo is my fault due to unsharp mask. - yes, things look very "interesting" when you use less than full color on the monitor.

-- Pete Dickson (dickson.pn@pg.com), December 18, 1998.