Thursday’s Task

John Holbrook

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Thursday’s Task: Complementary colors enhancing the landscape image, e.g., red and green, blue and orange, or purple and yellow. My examples below:

Goblin Valley State Park, UT

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Valley of Fire State Park, NV

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Lake Powell, AZ

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On the banks of the Rio Grande

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larryj

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Very nice selection of images for this subject John, thanks for sharing.

I am adding a few from my archive:

Gateway to the Garden of the Gods with Pike's Peak in the background.


Rock structure at Red Rocks Park


Balanced Rock and Friend at Arches NP, with the La Sal mountains in the background.

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John Holbrook

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Very nice selection of images for this subject John, thanks for sharing.

I am adding a few from my archive:

Gateway to the Garden of the Gods with Pike's Peak in the background.


Rock structure at Red Rocks Park


Balanced Rock and Friend at Arches NP, with the La Sal mountains in the background.

Rock structure at Arches NP
Larry, excellent images! I want to compliment you on your complementary colors landscapes. My favorites are the Garden of the Gods and the Red Rocks Park as well. I also really like the second Arches N.P. image. Thank you for sharing.
 

AlanLichty

Moderator
I can't honestly say that I was targeting this specific type of color contrast but I do have shots with this included.

A coastal sunrise at Harris Beach State Park:

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A sunset at Ruby Beach in Olympic National Park:

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The Vermillion Cliffs near the Paria townsite in southern Utah:

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Red Canyon in the San Rafael Swell:

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Colorful blooms of Mums on display in front of a store:

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John Holbrook

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I can't honestly say that I was targeting this specific type of color contrast but I do have shots with this included.

A coastal sunrise at Harris Beach State Park:

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A sunset at Ruby Beach in Olympic National Park:

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The Vermillion Cliffs near the Paria townsite in southern Utah:

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Red Canyon in the San Rafael Swell:

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Colorful blooms of Mums on display in front of a store:

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Alan, I love your choices—all with beautiful color. I especially favor the Harris Beach image, Ruby Beach, and I love the perspective of the Red Canyon composition—very interesting foreground. The mums are nice as well—thanks for adding this and all your other images.
 

John Holbrook

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Another interesting task. I have a few to offer.

Colorado Fall
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Grand Tetons
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Moab, UT
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Wonderful images you’ve shared (thank you) Jameel! I love all three of these—the reflection in Grand Teton landscape certainly enhances its appeal, and the Moab wide angle capture works very well with the juxtaposition of orange against the blue sky. And I love the clouds! Nice. Love the layers in the Colorado Fall image.
 

Ken Rennie

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Britain is not blessed with lots of bare sandstone, or deep blue skies but after some hunting I have found a few complementary colour images. Ken

Early morning warm sunshine illuminating rare snowfall
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Autumn foliage in late afternoon sunshine with a rare Scottish blue sky.
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Blue hour in Bruges with sodium floodlighting on Belgian orange bricks.
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Beth

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Beth, I love this composition—the abandoned structure off-center in the field of grasses, crowned with sweeping clouds above—nice! Love the color palette. Thank you for sharing this gorgeous image.
thanks john. i'm glad i got that shot, the house was gone last time i was out there. i think it might have been an old school house.
 

John Holbrook

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Craig, four beautiful images you’ve shared (thank you) and once again the accompanying titles are perfect. I love the “Dark River” composition with the strong foreground—well done! The same thought equally applies to the beautiful “Mystery Canyon”—perfect image! The image, “Still Waters Run Deep”, is nice with the blue water and sky contrasting with the orange rocks between. The “Spires of Seclusion” works well with the orange spires piercing the blue sky—very nice as well,
 

John Holbrook

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Britain is not blessed with lots of bare sandstone, or deep blue skies but after some hunting I have found a few complementary colour images. Ken

Early morning warm sunshine illuminating rare snowfall
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Autumn foliage in late afternoon sunshine with a rare Scottish blue sky.
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Blue hour in Bruges with sodium floodlighting on Belgian orange bricks.
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Ken, I love the compositional simplicity of your first image—the one long colored cloud spanning the panorama intersecting the dominant moon above the snowy hills. Nice! The Bruges scene is nice with the orange and blues duplicated in the reflection below. Also very nice! My favorite is the Scottish panorama with the lone tree. Good composition of layers and elements.
 
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