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A few months back KB and I took a trip to Big Bend for a little hiking and photography. Big Bend is one of the most beautiful spots in Texas, and in the whole U.S. as well. Here are a few of my favorites from the trip.
John

#1 Santa Elena Canyon


#2 Santa Elena Canyon


#3 Pink Sunrise


#4 Crepuscular Sunrise

And a few more...
#5 Kevin lines up on a Century Plant


#6 El Castellon B/W


#7


#8 El Castellon Sunrise

Wonderful series, John.
I love your B&W conversions too. They are amazing and stunning.

Wow . Fabulous series John. I especially like #3 and #6. Looks like a great place for hiking.

Love them all. One more fantastic set.

Sury

Great stuff John, it’s amazing that you could get two such completely different photos from almost the same vantage point in #3 and #4 and I guess a similar thing possibly with #6 and #8 although you would never know it. I like the El Castellon B&W and the last sunrise is even better than the first two…just, I think. It looks like a great place for dramatic photos and you have got some excellent ones there.
Greg

Hi John, : )

How different each photo and its atmospherics are! I love them all. Especially the sky offered exceptional opportunities for some magnificent light paintings, shadows and striking silhouettes.

Kevin provides a good scale for determining the height of the Century Plant = Height of Kevin Barret * 3. : ) That photo is probably in his Flickr account.
By the way, I wish it was I who could walk along the Santa Elena Canyon. Must be a humbling feeling being there...

Thanks for sharing,

Yildiz

I like how your 10-20mm is so slimming with me down in the corner there.

By the way, here are some of my own images from Big Bend NP on Flickr:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/kevin_barr ... 022814310/

Since this is John's thread, I'll start by putting up a few shots of him before I hijack it...





And here's the shot that I was lining up when John got my portrait there...



And this is from the same canyon as John's image above, shot with the Sony WX150:

If anyone needs a lens to be slimming... It is me!!!
Yildiz- You'd love all of Big Bend. It is phenomenal!

Portrait of a cactus, which started a recurring theme in my photography that weekend, but none of the others were as good as this one:



A couple of vaqueros on the trail beside the Rio Grande at Boquillas Canyon:



A pretty little birdie building its nest:



A section of the wild horizon a little after sunrise:

Great shots Kevin- It makes me want to go back again soon. I just wish it was a bit closer...

I agree nice ones KB, it does look like plenty of interesting variety was available, all the photos were enjoyable.
Greg

Very nice KB - love that cactus shot, spikey

Interesting - a guy on a horse with a gasoline can in his hand!

Good shots guys, looks like a nice place to go hiking.

Dusty

Dusty wrote:Interesting - a guy on a horse with a gasoline can in his hand!

Good shots guys, looks like a nice place to go hiking.

Dusty

Dusty, that's definitely not gasoline, but liquor