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Posted: **Tue Feb 21, 2006 8:30 am**

This is one of my favorite pics from last years holiday so i entered it in my 4wd clubs photo of the year competition.
I managed to take home the trophy :mrgreen:

Taken with Pentax *istDs and Zenitar 16mm f2.8 fisheye at 1/2000 f8.
taken in Jpeg and just added some contrast ... no other PP

Posted: **Tue Feb 21, 2006 8:34 am**

Gee Shane - the drought is really bad down your way.. :wink:

Fab shot and a deserving winner. Well done.

Posted: **Tue Feb 21, 2006 8:39 am**

Congrats on the win Big Red

Love the colours in the pic.

Posted: **Tue Feb 21, 2006 8:40 am**

oh yeh, it was taken at the "Jump ups" just north of Tibooburra in far north west NSW.
I was pretty lucky with the colours as it had just finished some heavy soaking rains out that way :lol:

[go figure ... i go to the desert and it rains :lol:

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Posted: **Tue Feb 21, 2006 9:57 am**

wow, amazing depth and great work with the colors. The whole composition is striking. Great photo!

Posted: **Tue Feb 21, 2006 10:00 am**

Awesome colours. Well done on the prize.

Posted: **Tue Feb 21, 2006 10:12 am**

Great shot, Shane. Really shows the vastness of our country. Well done on the prize, a deserving winner.

Regards
meicw

Posted: **Tue Feb 21, 2006 11:11 am**

shane
i was in Tibooburra a couple of months ago and remember having a lunch stop there and took a few pics but nothing like your beauty !... Tibooburra...... just big bloody rocks everywhere

cheers rob

Posted: **Tue Feb 21, 2006 12:14 pm**

Great image! Love the reds and browns contrasting of the blue sky

Is it me or is the horizon squint :?:

Posted: **Tue Feb 21, 2006 2:38 pm**

Ah yes, Tibooburra, the town with it's alluvial streets. There's gold in those hills.

Great image and very much a 4WD piccie. There's no wonder you won.

Posted: **Tue Feb 21, 2006 4:20 pm**

this is a deserving winner.

manages to convey the vastness and soliture of this country.

Steve

Posted: **Tue Feb 21, 2006 7:33 pm**

Paul wrote:Great image! Love the reds and browns contrasting of the blue sky
Is it me or is the horizon squint

squint ?

it was taken with a fisheye so unless i had the horizon exactly in the centre it may be bowing slightly ... is that what you mean by squint ? :lol:

Posted: **Tue Feb 21, 2006 7:55 pm**

Hip Hip Hooray for Shane

Congratulations !!!! What a photo -

'I love a sunburnt country,
a land of rocks and jump ups,
of rugged sweeping deserts,
and great big monster trucks'

Posted: **Tue Feb 21, 2006 8:16 pm**

LOL Rel ... :lol:

Posted: **Tue Feb 21, 2006 8:43 pm**

I can see whay you've done so well with this image...

The colors are grabbing and the contrasts and textures in the foreground rocks and the sky are brilliant, the foreground subject imparts the real stark, dry continent and a lone traveller, great combination of complimentary colors too...

That's a printer that one...

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