200. Another Big Round Number

‘Sunrise at the Ghost Town of Old Paria’ - Paria, Grand Staircase-Escalante National Monument, Utah, USA
photo by John Fowler
website - https://www.flickr.com/photos/snowpeak/
original image - https://unsplash.com/photos/5bv-_tIwHFk

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Beautiful lighting and combination of colors. But there was something strange about the sky - there were some strange colors and halos where it met the cliffs. Possibly the clouds were added in later, or maybe it was just a result of a long exposure.

Whatever the case, I decided to do a sky replacement of my own to remove the artefacts. So now it's definitely a composit. I really liked the original atmosphere, so I tried to stay true to it as much as possible - which was not easy. I also darkened the whole thing.

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92. Watch Out for Sandworms

Cosmic Ashtray, Grand Staircase-Escalante National Monument, Utah, USA
photo by Galyna Andrushko
website - https://www.instagram.com/galyna_andrushko/?hl=en
original image - https://thumbs.dreamstime.com/z/cosmic-ashtray-unusual-natural-formation-cosmic-ashtray-grand-staircase-escalante-national-monument-utah-united-states-99940937.jpg

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Straight out of Dune. In Utah, and there's going to be a plenty more of that state, as it's full of stuff like this.

I did a lot here. The original photo was at least a little overexposed, and while I could get the detail in the sky back, it was very grainy. Anyway, I didn't like the stark midday lighting, so I decided to change that. It was made possible by the Ashtray itself being just under a cloud shadow, and lit only indirectly. So I replaced the sky with sort of a sunset/duststorm variant for a moodier experience, giving the Ashtray a sort of secluded feel.

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