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I’d Rather Have a Time Out for Behavior in Joshua Tree National Park by Mark Stevens Via Flickr: A setting looking to the south while taking in views across mountain desert landscape with Joshua Trees and other plant-life present in this part of Joshua Tree National Park. In composing this image, I took advantage of the grouping of Joshua Trees to my front and how it helped to fill the foreground leading up to the more distant snowcapped ridges and peaks of Quail Mountain. The rest was later making adjustments with control points in DxO PhotoLab 6 to bring out the contrast, saturation and brightness I wanted for the final image.

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Whirlpool Mountain and Other Peaks and Ridges of the Hooker Icefield (Jasper National Park) by Mark Stevens Via Flickr: While at a roadside pullout area along Alberta Highway 93A with a view looking to the south-southwest Whirlpool Mountain. This is in Jasper National Park.

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Whirlpool Mountain and Other Peaks and Ridges of the Hooker Icefield (Jasper National Park) by Mark Stevens Via Flickr: While at a roadside pullout area along Alberta Highway 93A with a view looking to the south-southwest Whirlpool Mountain. This is in Jasper National Park.

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Evergreens and the Maligne River (Jasper National Park) by Mark Stevens Via Flickr: A setting looking to the south-southwest while taking in views of this forested setting in Maligne Canyon as the namesake river flows by. This is in Jasper National Park.

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I’d Rather Have a Time Out for Behavior in Joshua Tree National Park by Mark Stevens Via Flickr: A setting looking to the south while taking in views across mountain desert landscape with Joshua Trees and other plant-life present in this part of Joshua Tree National Park. In composing this image, I took advantage of the grouping of Joshua Trees to my front and how it helped to fill the foreground leading up to the more distant snowcapped ridges and peaks of Quail Mountain. The rest was later making adjustments with control points in DxO PhotoLab 6 to bring out the contrast, saturation and brightness I wanted for the final image.

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A Long and Winding Road Leads Me to the Mountains by Mark Stevens Via Flickr: A setting looking to the southwest while taking in views across open mountain plain while walking the Discovery Trail in the Ancient Bristlecone Pine Forest of the Inyo National Forest. My thinking in composing this image was to use the White Mountain Road as a leading line into the image with the more distant Sierra Nevada mountains as a far off destination. Having just moved to DxO PhotoLab 5, I decided to use the linear control point to bring out more details in the wildfire haze present in those mountains.

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Taking Stock of Beautiful Places in Great Smoky Mountains National Park by Mark Stevens Via Flickr: At the roadside pullout and parking location along the Newfound Gap Road (US Hwy 441) in Great Smoky Mountains National Park with a view looking to the south-southwest while taking in a forested landscape setting with mountains (Chimney Tops) of the Central Great Smoky Mountains under low clouds as a backdrop.

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High Adventures Amongst the Woods of the Ancient Bristlecone Pine Forest by Mark Stevens