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They say the difference between a good photograph and a great photograph is a matter of inches and minutes.  I once had a friend who was a natural photographer.  He had the eye.  When we would go out shooting together we could photograph the same subject just feet apart.  When we got our film, yes film, developed it looked like we had photographed in two different counties.

The image submitted here had the concept of the craggy stone cliffs of the Catalina Mountains located just outside of Tucson Arizona.  These hills can be quite photogenic.  For most, not all, landscape photos to work they need three things; foreground, middle ground and distance.  And to be a really good image they need the right light.  However I think the photographer missed it by inches and minutes. 

I would like this photographer to consider what happens when these two requirements are missing.  The reason we need the three distance elements is they give us death and scale.  Too often people try to capture the big picture such as the Grand Canyon without reference points. What appears wonderful to the mind’s eye are only distant rocks in the final print.  The second element is light. Without good light the shadows appear black without detail and the lit surfaces become flat and void of interesting texture.

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       Modified to Simulate Moring Light 

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