America the Beautiful
- Category:
- Nature & landscape
- Location:
- Colorado Springs, CO
- Description:
- I went on a trip to Colorado Springs, CO this summer. I've never seen mountains in my life and on the trip we took the tram up to the top of Pikes Peak. It was the most beautiful thing I've seen traveling and I really hope I repeat this experience. I learned that America the Beautiful was actually written on this mountain and inspired from it. It really did make me a little patriotic. You could see over 400 miles away, its not until you see something like this do you really realize how large the USA really is. I really wanted to express the scale of the rocks and the distance (which is actually a little foggy because of weather conditions and also the wildfires nearby). I recently took the photo off of my computer and added it to a flash drive, I could not find that particular flash drive at the time and I really wanted to upload the photo. I took it off another portfolio site to add on here so the resolution is a little smaller than usual.
- Tag(s):
- Colorado summer mountain Rock vacation Pikes Peak Scale
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kanonkop
cool story behind the photos! Thats why travelling is so awesome, because seeing and experiencing things for the first time is so exhilarating :).
25 August
Mountains very powerful and bold, and they great to photograph, or photograph from.
I think the composition could be a bit better for this one. if you consider that the sky makes up about 50% of the photo, and the foreground takes up quite a bit of space as well, there isn't much space left for the view. I would try decrease the amount of foreground in the left hand side, so you could go towards where those people are standing and photograph from up top. that way you'd get a further view of the back ground, and can still keep in some of the foreground.
happy travels -
mblum4
What do you like?
,itsa nice views ,I love the mountains and i know the song you talk,,I,love our country as I feel all the beauty you have captured here its a pitty what happend this year where the wild fires have damaged so much this beautifull nature and it will take many years to be restored , nice comnposition and capture -I love the shot
24 AugustWhat would you improve?
well,maybe the resolution is not the best ,for me its clear and you really have captured good the Colorado Mountains ,,,just beatifull as the song,,the sky doesnt have definition maybe when you passed this to the flash drive so you are right, the resolution is a bit low in quality ,sometimes when you shot at the long distance you get a blurry image-without a tripode- I think you have to have good lenses too: a 70 -200 would be good in this shot -you dont have information in the image ,to see the Iso and speed ,,-but I love the views Welcome
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sepiashutters
Great composition! One of the best tips I've found around for landmark or landscape photographies is to compare the distance or immensity of the subject along with something measurable, like those people in the distance. So in that effect, tres bien! It could get some better blue tones with a polarizer, but I'd keep this as it is and work on future photos.
24 August-
xtoratoratorax@sepiashutters Thank you very much. :) I went in on photoshop to try and enhance the blue tones a bit, I recently broke my polarizer xD I'll post the larger image sometime and the details might be a little easier to see.
24 August
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xtoratoratorax@mblum4 Thank you :) I actually left the day they started in colorado springs, it made me pretty sad to imagine everything I just expirienced dead. A little romantic to think about it but still sad. I'll have to post the larger image sometime soon so you can get the detail, it's a bit hard to see because its small and the fog from the fires nearby made it hard to see too far as well.
24 August