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Blackrock Summit and Amazing Views Beyond (Shenandoah National Park) by Mark Stevens Via Flickr: A setting looking to the north-northwest while taking in views across the large boulder and rock formation at the summit of Blackrock in Shenandoah National Park. In composing this image, I chose to take advantage of what I felt where the layers present with the foreground interest of the rock formations and then the forest covered ridges and peaks of the Northern Blue Ridge. I also liked the contrast of looks between those two types of setting. I angled my Nikon Z8 Mirrorless Camera slightly downward to bring the horizon higher into the image and minimize what I felt was the negative space of the overcast skies.

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Trees and Hoodoos Along the Queens Garden Trail (Bryce Canyon National Park) by Mark Stevens Via Flickr: A setting looking to the north-northwest while walking the Queens Garden Trail and taking in views across hoodoos and other eroded formations in Bryce Canyon National Park.

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Rain Fed Water Fall into Mammoth Cave at the Historic Entrance View (Mammoth Cave National Park) by Mark Stevens Via Flickr: A portrait orientation of an image from just inside the main, historic entrance in this part of Mammoth Cave National Park with a view looking to just outside the cave. While most of the images at this point had been with a landscape orientation, I felt a portrait one would best capture that feel of the cave entrance, especially with the waters falling from the top to some nearby rocks a little to my front. I decided to go with a longer exposure in order to bring out more of a milkier look to the falling waters. I then worked with Capture NX2 and used some D-Lighting adjustments to bring out the more shadowed areas without including too much color cast. I later did some work with color control points for the final image seen.

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A Light Shines from Above and Across the Filaments of Water Falling (Mammoth Cave National Park) by Mark Stevens Via Flickr: A portrait orientation to an image captured at the main, historic entrance to Mammoth Cave in the national park with a view looking outward. Some waters from recent rains were falling across the entrance.

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Rain Fed Water Fall into Mammoth Cave at the Historic Entrance View (Mammoth Cave National Park) by Mark Stevens Via Flickr: A portrait orientation of an image from just inside the main, historic entrance in this part of Mammoth Cave National Park with a view looking to just outside the cave. While most of the images at this point had been with a landscape orientation, I felt a portrait one would best capture that feel of the cave entrance, especially with the waters falling from the top to some nearby rocks a little to my front. I decided to go with a longer exposure in order to bring out more of a milkier look to the falling waters. I then worked with Capture NX2 and used some D-Lighting adjustments to bring out the more shadowed areas without including too much color cast. I later did some work with color control points for the final image seen.

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Water Falling Across the Historic Cave Entrance with a View from Inside (Mammoth Cave National Park) by Mark Stevens Via Flickr: At the Historic Entrance to Mammoth Cave.

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A Light Shines from Above and Across the Filaments of Water Falling (Mammoth Cave National Park) by Mark Stevens Via Flickr: A portrait orientation to an image captured at the main, historic entrance to Mammoth Cave in the national park with a view looking outward. Some waters from recent rains were falling across the entrance.

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One Can't Buy Love, But One Can Walk out into Nature and See the Earth's Beauty (Analog Efex Pro 2, Mammoth Cave National Park) by Mark Stevens Via Flickr: I exported a TIFF image to Analog Efex Pro 2 and made some adjustments to a classic camera recipe to bring out a more "old camera" feel that might have been captured on some film with a camera. This is standing just beyond the famous, historic entrance to Mammoth Cave with waters from a recent rains coming down over the cave entrance.

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Looking Straight to the Top of Devils Tower (Bear Lodge, Devils Tower National Monument) by Mark Stevens Via Flickr: With this image I used this close up point along the Red Beds Trail to look straight up on the eastern side. I was able to find a point with a slight closed down aperture to bring much into focus in this image, including not just the side of this formation from near to far but also a few of these people climbing. Zooming in, one can see the ropes and colors of clothes and helmets.

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Looking Straight to the Top of Devils Tower (Bear Lodge, Devils Tower National Monument) by Mark Stevens Via Flickr: With this image I used this close up point along the Red Beds Trail to look straight up on the eastern side. I was able to find a point with a slight closed down aperture to bring much into focus in this image, including not just the side of this formation from near to far but also a few of these people climbing. Zooming in, one can see the ropes and colors of clothes and helmets.

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One Can't Buy Love, But One Can Walk out into Nature and See the Earth's Beauty (Mammoth Cave National Park) by Mark Stevens Via Flickr: An image I capture where I got the idea from others including this one on Flickr (www.flickr.com/photos/andreamoscato/25358154068/in/galler...). In my mind, the idea was to use the historic entrance and the cave walls as kind of a portal for looking up and outward into the daylight beyond. The recent rains just before my visit helped to create a small waterfall that I was able to use along with the stairs to complete the setting for this image captured. I decided to go with a longer exposure in order to bring out more of a milkier look to the falling waters. I later worked with Capture NX2 and you some D-Lighting adjustments to bring out the more shadowed areas without including too much color cast. I then did some work with color control points for the final image seen.