Painted Desert View

[larryj]

Driving west on US40 heading to the Grand Canyon, we decided to drive through the Painted Desert and were presented with great colorful vistas. This was a 2 frame landscape panorama that shows the vastness of the Painted Desert.

 

[AlanLichty]

Lovely view with the pano and really good visibility/colors. Pleasant atmospherics too.

I used to visit that place a lot growing up in Phoenix but haven't driven past there in over a dozen years.

 

[larryj]

Lovely view with the pano and really good visibility/colors. Pleasant atmospherics too.

I used to visit that place a lot growing up in Phoenix but haven't driven past there in over a dozen years.

Thanks Alan for the comments, appreciated.

We don't usually go on hiwy 40 on our road trips to LA, but we wanted to stop a Grand Canyon on this trip. We usually travel I70 then go through Las Vegas to LA. It is a shorter drive.

 

[JimFox]

That's a great capture of it. For as cool as the Painted Desert is, it's very hard to capture properly.

 

[DES]

I think this is really exceptional. Being from the Southwest, the colors look very natural to me -- vivid, but not over-saturated. And I really like the symmetry of the clouds and the terrain from the perspective of your photo.

 

[larryj]

That's a great capture of it. For as cool as the Painted Desert is, it's very hard to capture properly.

Thanks Jim it is a fun place to shoot with interesting view in every direction! I love the fact that the cloud cooperated to balance the landscape in this shot!

 

[larryj]

I think this is really exceptional. Being from the Southwest, the colors look very natural to me -- vivid, but not over-saturated. And I really like the symmetry of the clouds and the terrain from the perspective of your photo.

Thanks DES for your comments on this image, they are very much appreciated.