Montezuma Pass, Coronado National Memorial, Arizona. Mamiya C330f, 55mm @ f/8, 4 sec, ND grad filter. Shot with the last roll of Agfa Ultra 50 I had, that is until winning some on eBay recently.

-- Christian Deichert (torgophile@aol.com), August 24, 2001

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the sky is dramatic but the tilting planet is disturbing. Maybe less of the tree too.

-- Ken C (kenc@execpc.com), August 24, 2001.

Very different and interesting. Like the unusual colors and the selected foreground.

-- M. Huber (rurpho@tele-net.net), August 24, 2001.

Now I know where CNN got their Mars photos. Very cool. I like the barren look. Nice filter too.

-- darrell (myflytrap@onebox.com), September 01, 2001.

Thanks for the comments. Actually, Ken, the camera was level, it's the slope that's tilting. In southeast Arizona, the ground is mostly level, and small mountain ranges like the Huachucas pictured here just pop up with few or no foothills.

-- Christian Deichert (torgophile@aol.com), September 02, 2001.

I hope you don't mind a friendly criticism. I have shot landscapes in which the horizon appears tilted. If one is a purist, I guess you level your tripod and tilt be damned. But I have arrived at the conclusion that if my viewer is disturbed by a tilted horizen, I have failed to interest him to the extent I desire. So now I make the horizon level and slope be damned. I like the latter much better. Just a thought!

-- Joe Davajon (davajon@softcom.net), August 28, 2002.