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Challenge: Clichés (Classic Editing)
Camera: Sony DSC-F717
Location: Superstition Mountain, Arizona
Date: Feb 1, 2003
Aperture: f/5.6
ISO: 100
Shutter: 1/125
Galleries: Sky, Nature
Date Uploaded: Feb 2, 2003

 The great cliche of desert photography is a suguaro cactus silhouette.

In the image this suguaro stands guard, as it has thousands of times for at least 100 years, over a fabulous golden sunrise.

This image was taken just south of the Superstition Mountains near Phoenix, Arizona USA. Originally I wanted to include a sharp cliff to the left of this image, but the angle was not right.

I liked the stark horizon and sharp edges with the cactus at the highest point.

Statistics
Place: 23 out of 246
Avg (all users): 6.4450
Avg (commenters): 7.3000
Avg (participants): 6.4538
Avg (non-participants): 6.4306
Views since voting: 1704
Votes: 191
Comments: 21
Favorites: 2 (view)

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 02/10/2003 01:03:52 AM
This is a beautiful photo. I love everything about it.
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 Comments Made During the Challenge
02/09/2003 10:00:35 PM
I might have darkened the sky a teeny bit to saturate the color more, but that's just my style for processing this type of shot. Can't really suggest any other improvement.
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 02/07/2003 12:03:59 PM
Great picture
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 02/07/2003 08:09:46 AM
Beautiful. Was the sky really this orange. I love it any way. I love silouitted shots. Well done.
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 02/06/2003 08:41:54 PM
Pretty colors, pretty silhouette. Nice composition!!
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 02/06/2003 06:25:37 PM
Wonderfull shot. I love silhouettes and this one is fantastic. Excellent composition. Good luck. Jacko 9
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 02/06/2003 04:25:47 PM
Very nice!
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 02/05/2003 08:45:00 PM
fantastic composition and catch. a bit unsharp in the foreground
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 02/05/2003 12:46:27 PM
Very nice silhouette shot.
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 02/05/2003 04:05:45 AM
Holy moly, that's excellent. I've never really seen a very yellow sky like that that. Very nice! 9.
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 02/05/2003 02:26:48 AM
Nicely done and evocative of "the wild west".
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 02/04/2003 11:13:38 PM
Good sunset picture. Is that a cactus?
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 02/04/2003 07:26:39 PM
i really like the colors
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 02/04/2003 06:20:56 PM
Very nice colors and sillouhette.
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 02/04/2003 05:23:23 PM
a little gainy in the dark areas
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 02/04/2003 05:16:30 PM
i give you 9 for that.......
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 02/04/2003 05:37:04 AM
Very nice! One of my favourites this week.
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 02/03/2003 09:04:36 PM
Classic Sonoran Sunset. Looks like a postcard! Good Job
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 02/03/2003 08:20:19 PM
This certainly is a cliche shot! Of course, therefore, it is quite good. Well exposed. I think it would be interesting to crop this to a closeup of the top of the cactus only to the right border, it kind of looks like a man with a camera hanging around his neck. lol. nice job!
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 02/03/2003 03:03:08 PM
Wow, love the light in this shot.....stunning.
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 02/03/2003 02:41:39 PM
efr4tfGood picture, very creative.
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