Smith Rock and Crooked River by bmac62
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Looking through past travel files, here's one I've never done a thing with...
Zoom worthy:)
Smith Rock State Park is an American state park located in central Oregon's High Desert near the communities of Redmond and Terrebonne. Its sheer cliffs of tuff and basalt are ideal for rock climbing of all difficulty levels. Smith Rock is generally considered the birthplace of modern American sport climbing, and is host to cutting-edge climbing routes. It is popular for sport climbing, traditional climbing, multi-pitch climbing, and bouldering. [Wiki quote]
Comments (23)
Richardphotos
what an awesome place and your capture is high quality
MrsRatbag
The rocks are a beautiful setting for that elegantly curving river...what a stunning shot!
kgb224
Amazing capture Bill. God bless.
bugsnouveau
Awe-inspiring scenery...makes me want to watch a cowboy movie
jayfar
Awesome image Bill and I bet there's plenty of wild life in there !!
helanker
WOW! This is such a beautiful and interesting place and a great photo of it.
blankfrancine
Amazing landscape capture! Awesome formations.
durleybeachbum
What a place! None of those sports would have appealed to me even when I was fit! But I can see the sttraction.
jendellas
Very beautiful but I will leave the climbing to others :o)))
CavalierLady
Fascinating landscape, Bill. I love how you composed this and the rocks look like a very challenging climb!
Sea_Dog
Great view. Well done.
RodS
Wow, what a spectacular place! You really got a magnificent photo of it, Bill! They should use this in a travel brochure!
We sure had a great time with you two! :-D
moochagoo
How beautiful, I didn't know that park.
flavia49
great view
goodoleboy
Marvelous ambiance of color, clarity, light, shadow, and depth in this winning capture of Oregon's High Desert and environs.
auntietk
That's such a beautiful place, and your shot shows it off to good advantage! It's fun to watch people climb there, even though I've no interest in doing it myself. A gorgeous landscape!
X-PaX
Beautiful capture Bill. I like the wide view very much.
kenmo
Billl...Gorgeous scene
awjay
i can see where the name came from...excellent
sossy
what a breathtaking landscape and gorgeous capture! ;o)
anahata.c
well I'm back to end this night with another comment in your gallery...and I chose this even though I'm gonna have a hard time verbalizing what I love about it. It's a really difficult view: It's right-side-heavy, it's craggy, it has lots of sheer rock without many signs of life, it feels ornery, the river is ornery and not terribly inviting, you have bare scraggly branches in front, and a big blue sky interrupted with contrails (and clouds I assume). A knotty invitation for a photographer. Tara wrote, of climbing there, "I have no interest in doing it myself": No 'interest'??? You'd have to drag me with 400 locomotives to get me to climb those faces! Fuggeddabboudit. What a strange craggy and foreboding place.
But you somehow "framed" it all, tamed it all, balanced it all...(another list): with the high faces on the right sloping off to the low dip on the left; with bleaching light on the right and deep shadow on the left; with the river drawing the two sides together; with the sky giving infinitude, to balance out the in-our-faces sight of those sheared-off rocks; with the foreground all messy and scraggly, giving balance to the sheer mountain faces, not to mention the largely barren ground. Balance. This is a Bill shot---you managed to make balance out of a sight that would tell me "ain't no balance here, jack". (And yes, landscapes call me "jack".) Additionally, it has your usual crystal clarity, your usual flow---even in a jagged sight like this---and your usual deft and always gentle hand. And that's something I can't describe---the gentle part...that's an 'extra', it's not on the menu, and I don't think I can get the cook to make it for me. But there's a gentleness in the way you do these landscapes, and I don't know how you do it but you do; and it balances the craggy forbidding sight itself. And, with a largely brownish-beige shot, that dark river and the dark shadows (as well as the sky) even things out. And btw---so you didn't think I missed it---that center peak is the most tortured of the bunch: It's been in the sun too long, and got baked. So it makes it a perfect center for the shot: Because its excess textures draw us to it, thus providing yet another balance to that sheer rock. More balance. A beautiful job with a difficult shot. I'll be back for more very soon. It's getting late (for me) and I need to wind down now. (Not an easy landscape to "go to sleep" on! You couldn't have photographed daisies?) Wonderful work, Bill.
wysiwig
At first I thought this was the Southwest. I should have known better, the rocks are the wrong color. I love this POV. The battlements perfectly lead the eye from right to left following the descent of the ridgeline. And smack in the middle is something that looks a bit like a castle tower. The composition is terrific with the patch of blue balancing out the stone wall on the right side. Excellent stuff.
VDH
Great view, excellent shot!!