Why was this scored so low?!?!?! This an excellent example of Ansel's technique.
the only reason i could see would be the grayscale isn't quite to that of ansel's famous zone system.......no pure black apears in this image and there for voters to for granted the beauty and the simmularities between this image and many of ansel's.
i'm also sorry this didn't place higher great shot very nice leading lines u can really get lost in this.
Sweet and mellow. A little noisy in the sky. A hair more luminance in the foregroudn dune, not "contrast" exactly but a sense of light glowing int he ripples, woudl take this to the next level.
I can't help thinking Adams would have included a lot more sky with this image. Also I would have pushed the contrast up so that the darkest areas were much closer to black. Otherwise a well observed and composed image of a visually appealing subject. Well done 7