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Big Bend National Park

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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.
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#1 Santa Elena Canyon
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#2 Santa Elena Canyon
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#3 Pink Sunrise
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#4 Crepuscular Sunrise
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And a few more...
#5 Kevin lines up on a Century Plant
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#6 El Castellon B/W
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#7
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#8 El Castellon Sunrise
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Wonderful series, John.
I love your B&W conversions too. They are amazing and stunning.
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Wow :shock: . Fabulous series John. I especially like #3 and #6. Looks like a great place for hiking.
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Love them all. One more fantastic set.

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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.
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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,

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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...

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

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

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

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

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A pretty little birdie building its nest:

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A section of the wild horizon a little after sunrise:

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Great shots Kevin- It makes me want to go back again soon. I just wish it was a bit closer...
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I agree nice ones KB, it does look like plenty of interesting variety was available, all the photos were enjoyable.
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Very nice KB - love that cactus shot, spikey :shock:
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Interesting - a guy on a horse with a gasoline can in his hand!

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

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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.

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Dusty, that's definitely not gasoline, but liquor :wink:
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