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Death Valley is a Disneyland for photographers.  It covers 3,000 square miles from the salt flats of Bad Water to the moving rocks of The Race Track, from the ghost town of Rhyolite to the sand dunes of Stove Pipe.  There are more iconic photographs to be taken in this National Park than any other I have been too.

The image submitted here is of the great sand dunes near Stove Pipe Wells.  This is the place you want to be at sunrise.  This photograph has the rich textures and soft light you can only get in the first 45 minutes of the day.  I like the graphic of the slopping sand dunes repeated three times starting with the foreground.  The plant life between the foreground element and the middle ground helps to tie them together. The removal of the sky and showing only the mountains was a wise decision. 

There are a couple of suggestions I would like to make.  The sand dunes are the subject and therefore the mountains have less importance than the amount of composition space they make up would warrant.  The photo-artist may want to consider reducing their prominence by cropping.  The second suggestion would be to darken the mountains.  This will make the sand dunes appear to be brighter.

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    Marked Up    

Cropped     Modified Mountains 

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