Brought out of RAW conversion increasing shadow and exposure and saturation. Cropped to make a horizontal. Did a levels and curves adjustment. Cropped a few distracting items out of the sand flats. Did an unsharp mask and resized.
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Beautiful scene. I would like to see this in the morning or evening (light seems a little harsh in this one). You've got a good composition, and an excellent scene. This shoud do well.
I loved the colors in this shot, and the dichotomy of sand vs. snow. Excellent composition. My one small suggestion might have been to include an element in the foreground. Overall, this is wonderful.
Strong composition that has the calendar feel. There is something distracting in the middle at the bottom which I find a distraction. I would have cropped or cloned it out.
I get the idea of contrasting the expanse with the detailed top, but the top portion alone contains enough very contradictory images for me. A panoramic of just the top portion would have been fine. 7