This is an older image that I decided needed further editing.
This photo taken with the Canon 5D MkII using the Canon 50mm f2.5 macro lens at 1/5 sec. @ f22. Processed using Camera Raw, Photoshop CS5, Topaz Adjust 5, Topaz ReMask 3, and FastStone Editor.
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Another, older, image that I felt would benefit from a fresh edit. Hope that it finds some friends!
This photo taken with the Canon 5D Mk II using the Canon 50mm f2.5 Macro lens, 1/1 sec. @ f22. Lighting: Ascor QC1000 Studio Stobe system using diffused quartz modeling lights, 1 head at 400watts in Large softbox upper left side with large white card reflector on right side with 200watt diffused dish pointed into card reflector to soften shadows and add highlights to pepper front and side surfaces.
Processed using Camera Raw, Photoshop CS5, Topaz ReMask3, Topaz Adjust 5, and FastStone Editor.
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The Echo Amphitheater is located in Rio Arriba County of New Mexico. It is approximately 4 miles from Ghost Ranch and 17 miles from Abiquiu, NM.
A natural sandstone wind cave, it sits in a formation of other sandstone bluffs and mesas totaling approximately 1/2 mile in length.
The amphitheater carries a rather gory history. From Wikipedia I read . . . "In the spring of 1861 a group of settlers from Iowa were farming in northern New Mexico when they were set upon by a band of Navajo who had ventured into the region. The settlers (one family was the Zendalters and another family was the Treblers) were taken to the top of the amphitheater and executed. Their blood spilled into the amphitheater, staining its walls. Three years later, when the Navajo were being forced on the "Long Walk" to Bosque Redondo by the U.S. Army, ten Navajo men were killed at the top of the amphitheater in retribution for the earlier deaths. Once again, blood spilled down the walls of the amphitheater. The blood seeped into the pores of the rock and dried and supposedly is still visible today. It is said that in the echoes returned from the cliff's walls one can hear the anguished cries of the dead."
It is my opinion, however, that the discoloration is from runoff from natural sources (such as precipitation) which has taken on very rust-like tones due to the heavy iron content in the sedimentary rock of which the formation is made. Not a glamorous explanation but one that is, nevertheless, a very likely one.
Photo taken with an Olympus E-30 camera using the excellent Zuiko 12-60mm lens at 12mm, processes using Adobe Camera Raw, CS5, Topaz Plug-Ins, and Faststone Editor.
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The Echo Amphitheater is located in Rio Arriba County of New Mexico. It is approximately 4 miles from Ghost Ranch and 17 miles from Abiquiu, NM.
A natural sandstone wind cave, it sits in a formation of other sandstone bluffs and mesas totaling approximately 1/2 mile in length.
This image is not of the actual Amphitheater, but is a part of the formation in which it exists. It is a cliff face which appears to be formed by a fracture and is approximately 300 feet from the top to the ground.
Photo taken with an Olympus E-30 camera using the excellent Zuiko 12-60mm lens at 12mm, processes using Adobe Camera Raw, CS5, Topaz Plug-Ins, and Faststone Editor.
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Somewhere along I-40 near Flagstaff as storm approaches from the North-East.
This photo taken with the Canon 5D MkII using the Canon 24-105 f4L lens at 25mm, 1/400 sec. @ f8. Processes using Camera Raw, Photoshop CS5, Topaz ReStyle, Topaz DeNoise, and FastStone Editor.
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