Photo Contest Entry from IntellectumValdeAma

Nice photo -it has an Ansel Adams feel to it.

It does, but I'm really turned off by the highway we're forced to follow, behind a truck, at that, and flanked on one side by telephone poles.  What a pity.  That's why Ansel Adams hauled his heavy camera up mountains and through remote lands to get his pristine images.  Are those days gone?

Well, I have plenty of photos that do display pristine views of nature that I had searched long and hard to find, but this wasn't supposed to be just a portrait of landscape. During this trip, I would spend upwards of 10 hours a day driving a few times a week. Part of my love of travel is being on the road, not just the destinations. On this occasion, it was just this truck and myself together on the road for nearly two hours. I didn't see anyone else. The juxtaposition of the human elements, the poles and truck and asphalt, against the divinely illuminated sky and mountain were *exactly* what I found so appealing about this photo in particular, as well as what I find so appealing about travel in general; the merging of nature and man, and where everything becomes new and magical as the journey evolves. Even trucks and telephones poles.

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And I think Ansel Adams might agree with me...

Bully for you.  I'm glad you've offered your defending point of view.  It was needed.  Thanks.

Are you by any chance headed for Raton Pass here? It looks so familiar... wonderful mood shot!

Love the forced perspective, the converging verticals and the beautifully-burned and dodged, curves-adjusted, whatever or not presentation. To my eye, your inverted 'V" road markings compel the viewer's attention, getting right to the point (literally, the truck), and there is no color to distract.  Looks like an indie film you'd see on the Bravo or Sundance channel. And I'm a Latin buff, too :) Congratulations. As JaxZ says, a "wonderful mood shot."

This is beautiful.

Come mornin'  I'll be through them hills and gone...

-Townes Van Zandt