Sliding Wind

[JimFox]

Well, I know this one is going to drive a couple of you, or maybe all of you a bit bonkers.

This is right off Hwy 62 on the way up into Morongo Valley and ultimately Joshua Tree. The land really does angle to that degree. I had captured it probably in the middle of this where the land only tilted some and the windmills only tilted some. They both tilted opposite directions. When I decided I better level this while processing, I leveled based on the vertical windmill on the right, but also based on the very small telephone poles in the background. They are all now vertical.

I had thought when I processed this into a B&W that I was going to darken the sky as I like dark skies in B&W's for their mood and intensity. But when I tried to do that I realized that the fan blades on the windmill were dark already, perhaps from the motion. But anyway, going darker with the sky caused the fan blades to blend into the sky and get lost. So, I decided to go the opposite way, and go High Key with the processing and just take the sky as close to being white and blown out as possible. So that's where it stands. It's growing on me....

All comments are welcome,

Jim

 

[Ben Egbert]

Works for me

 

[AlanLichty]

The telephone poles keep me from going wonky about the slopes ground

I can see your point about the sky and the turbine blades.

 

[Dan Moorehead]

Wonderful

 

[David S]

I like your image a ton! The ground leads into the sky nicely ; I cropped it a different way just to see what it might look like; yours is probably better - But this is another way to see the same thing