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People’s Choice
In a new spirit of growth, entries in People Choice ask the simple question, “Which of these nature and landscape images do you really like?”
People’s Choice gallery presents you our images before submission for competition. Your active help will definitely aid our choices – when you simply click on an image, then your public acclaim helps our competitive choices.
Each of our images has been subject to rigorous capture and digital darkroom workflow we take you on our Tours and teach Workflow Workshops. Composition, color management, strong contrast, skillful masks, blending modes, etc. ~ all add many superb workflow skills. Such skills aid creation of images which truly appeal to a judge’s shrewd eye!
Our website is a source of national and international review ~ we receive daily reports indicating which images you consider popular!
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BistiArt > Lavender Dawn
Dawn can be such a soft, wondrous time…
The softness of sunrise is tempered by a sand dune with its subtle, wind-sculpted curve.  As our eye sweeps nature’s gorgeous curve, we finally reach the back edge.  Now, you can see the glorious light of morning’s marvel. 
Having framed soft lavender colors, the eye then seeks detail in the foreground bushes.
Such beauty occurs in deserts around the world such as the Kalahari, Sahara, and White Sands … just get out there and capture it!
BistiArt > Primordial Bisti
“In the beginning, there was the Heavens and the Earth…”		Genesis 1:1
Can you imagine what Earth might have looked like some 4 billion years ago?
As we wandered the Bisti Badlands several years ago, light’s confluence seemed supercharged by a stormline about to devour the soft clay ground with driving rain.
Our interpretation of this image is almost surreal; the dark clouds are offset by bright blue, clear skies.  Red hills seem to leap from beneath the cloud’s dark, foreboding brow.  The sun’s setting glow turns the nearby hoodoos to gold.
BistiArt > Watch It…
Wild horses, who have just eaten hay supplied  by an understanding supporter, allow our close up photography.  Here, the white stallion warily directs a young paint mare, herding her away from us.  He does not want her joining another nearby black stallion whose band came in to finish the hay.
I love their motion, sculptured under the backdrop of highlights glinting from mane and tail.
BistiArt > Peach Landing
I love inverse symmetry of this image.  Five sand hill cranes, eager to land, are a left-handed question mark.  
Sunset, deep peach in color, gives the cranes a gorgeous ambience.  In a few moments, they will land in ice-fringed waters of Bosque del Apache.  
Just like Tranquility, a long, peaceful night’s rest will prepare these birds for tomorrow’s search for one of life’s necessities – food.
BistiArt > Storm Across the Valley,
Clouds are rollin’ in…
John Denver’s immortal song rarely has a better billboard than this memorable shot of Slaughter Canyon near Moab.  May’s thunderstorm cuddles a distant rainbow seeming to leap straight up from the canyon’s right edge.
BistiArt > Chow...

While Mom stands watch, her rambunctious son starts downgrade in front of his aunt.  They are all seeking hay in the draw below.
But, the stallion and mare of _ _ _ are already there.  Will there be enough food left for this small herd?
BistiArt > Citadel
Even more remote than Moon House, Citadel housed about the same number of families on Cedar Mesa.  A major difference was protected egress; this time, the Anasazi lived in a small structure along narrow causeway of rock.  Steep canyon walls fall away to deep stream beds.  Both ruins occupy the same canyon level; a sandy shale unit beneath the towering brow of a guardian cliff. 
Bears Ears, distant sacred mountains of the Ute, are about to witness another in a very, very long cycle of sundown's.
BistiArt > Painted Hand
A lonely tower, Painted Hand Ruin, caught in the day’s last rays of sun, stands as the northernmost of ruin segments along Hovenweep and Canyons of the Ancients National Monuments.    Sleeping Ute Mountain, a silent, aged volcanic partner to the southwest, has occupied this landscape for eons as a beacon for Anasazi travelers.  Painted Hand is only one of many Anasazi ruins which lie within eyesight of Sleeping Ute.
BistiArt > Pithouse Life
Atop Chapin Mesa, restored remnants of Anasazi pithouses let us see how the Anasazi lived during Basketmaker III time about 550-750 AD.  
From Chapin Mesa at Mesa Verde to Lowry Pueblo northwest of Cortez to Canyons of the Ancients and, finally, to many un-restored pithouses on Cedar Mesa, Anasazi lived in an early life style for about 200 years. 
A pithouse was dug into the ground a few feet, then covered with trees, brush, and dirt.  This composite site is actually two pithouses.  With a fire pit only 6 feet below a ceiling laced with sticks and timber repeatedly dried by many cooking fires – the Anasazi lived in a potential fire hazard.  The bigger room is actually the first pithouse ~ which burned to the ground some time after 674 AD.
Archeologists suggest pithouses had a normal life of 20 years; providing they escaped fire!
Painted Hand
A lonely tower, Painted Hand Ruin, caught in the day’s last rays of sun, stands as the northernmost of ruin segments along Hovenweep and Canyons of the Ancients National Monuments. Sleeping Ute Mountain, a silent, aged volcanic partner to the southwest, has occupied this landscape for eons as a beacon for Anasazi travelers. Painted Hand is only one of many Anasazi ruins which lie within eyesight of Sleeping Ute.
BistiArt > Painted Hand
A lonely tower, Painted Hand Ruin, caught in the day’s last rays of sun, stands as the northernmost of ruin segments along Hovenweep and Canyons of the Ancients National Monuments.    Sleeping Ute Mountain, a silent, aged volcanic partner to the southwest, has occupied this landscape for eons as a beacon for Anasazi travelers.  Painted Hand is only one of many Anasazi ruins which lie within eyesight of Sleeping Ute.
Painted Hand
A lonely tower, Painted Hand Ruin, caught in the day’s last rays of sun, stands as the northernmost of ruin segments along Hovenweep and Canyons of the Ancients National Monuments. Sleeping Ute Mountain, a silent, aged volcanic partner to the southwest, has occupied this landscape for eons as a beacon for Anasazi travelers. Painted Hand is only one of many Anasazi ruins which lie within eyesight of Sleeping Ute.
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