Descansos are highway shrines built to commemorate the place of a death on many southwest US highways. This one is on Hwy. 560 near Albuquerque, NM. I took a long nighttime exposure and popped the cross once with my handheld strobe, then ran across the highway and popped the road sign a couple of times, then ran back to close the shutter before traffic came from the wrong direction screwing up the red taillight trails.
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The lighting of the cross is great. I wonder whether cropping in from the left (removing everything up to and including the chevron) would be preferable.
Awesome idea! This actually makes me think for a minute and that isn´t all too common on this site. Only thing is I think you could have lit the cross itself better, the lighting is too harsh and I guess you used a flash for this. I would have used a flashlight to "paint" the cross with light, enabling you to control the shadows more. The lighting drag it down from a 10 from me but I still gave you a 9 and it´s the highest from me so far in this challenge.
This is great, I have one of these along the highway here in my hometown. In memory of a friend that died in an auto accident in 1992. I like the shutter speed effect of the passing car, like life goes on. Congrats on a moving shot 9
The emphasis here is more on the monument. Nice shot...I wonder if the effect would have been more dramatic with the flash at camera left and up high...
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