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Always Glacier National Park by Mark Stevens Via Flickr: While at a roadside pullout along the main park road in the Many Glacier area with a view looking to the southwest. This is in Glacier National Park with a setting looking across the waters of Lake Sherburne to Grinnell Point and other peaks and ridges of the Continental Divide. My thought on composing this image was to use the waters and then shoreline with its forest as a foreground interest leading up to the mountains off in the distance. I set an exposure for the clouds as I wanted to be able to pull out some of the details later in how they hid some of the peaks present.

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Heading for Mountains of Texas by Mark Stevens Via Flickr: A setting looking to the southwest while on US Hwy 385 at a roadside pullout and taking in views across desert landscape present with Santiago Peak off in the distance. Composing the image was a matter of balancing the desert landscape with its earth-tones with that of the distant mountain peak and ridgelines and blue skies above. I kept the windmill a little off centered as I wanted to have that also in balance with Santiago peak. I later worked with control points in DxO PhotoLab 4 and then made some adjustments to bring out the contrast, saturation and brightness I wanted for the final image.

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Peaks Hidden in Clouds (Glacier National Park) by Mark Stevens Via Flickr: A setting looking to the southwest while taking in views at a roadside pullout along the main park road in the Many Glacier area of Glacier National Park. The setting is of cloud hidden ridges and peaks of the Northern Lewis Range and Continental Divide.

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Peaks Hidden in Clouds (Glacier National Park) by Mark Stevens Via Flickr: A setting looking to the southwest while taking in views at a roadside pullout along the main park road in the Many Glacier area of Glacier National Park. The setting is of cloud hidden ridges and peaks of the Northern Lewis Range and Continental Divide.

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Mountains and Clouds in Glacier National Park by Mark Stevens Via Flickr: While at a roadside pullout along the main park road in the Many Glacier area of Glacier National Park with a view looking to the southwest. The view is looking across the waters of Lake Sherburne.

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Joshua Tree National Park, Another Ultimate Stress Escape! by Mark Stevens Via Flickr: A setting looking to the southwest while taking in views across the mountain desert landscape with the Joshua Trees and other plant-life. Which drew me into the setting was the numbers of Joshua Trees that extended across this setting from near to far as well as from image side to side. I liked that edge to edge lock and having the snowcap mountains as a distant backdrop.

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Joshua Tree National Park, Another Ultimate Stress Escape! by Mark Stevens Via Flickr: A setting looking to the southwest while taking in views across the mountain desert landscape with the Joshua Trees and other plant-life. Which drew me into the setting was the numbers of Joshua Trees that extended across this setting from near to far as well as from image side to side. I liked that edge to edge lock and having the snowcap mountains as a distant backdrop.

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Joshua Tree National Park, Another Ultimate Stress Escape! by Mark Stevens Via Flickr: A setting looking to the southwest while taking in views across the mountain desert landscape with the Joshua Trees and other plant-life. Which drew me into the setting was the numbers of Joshua Trees that extended across this setting from near to far as well as from image side to side. I liked that edge to edge lock and having the snowcap mountains as a distant backdrop.