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It Isn’t Hard to Imagine a Beautiful Place in Guadalupe Mountains National Park by Mark Stevens Via Flickr: A view looking to the east while walking the trails in the Salt Basin Dunes portion of Guadalupe Mountains National Park. My thinking in composing the image was to capture a sweeping view looking across those white sands with the growing vegetation. The Guadalupe Mountains would then seemingly tower above all with some blue skies and clouds to complement the west Texas landscape and national park setting

Buildings from Long Ago of the Bailly Homestead in Indiana Dunes National Park by Mark Stevens Via Flickr: While walking around the historic Bailly Homestead and taking in view of these buildings and living quarters. The view is looking to the east while walking the Bailly Homestead - Chellberg Farm Trail in Indiana Dunes National Park.

It's Always a Good Time for a Walk in the Bisti Badlands by Mark Stevens Via Flickr: While walking around and exploring the Bisti Badlands with a view looking to the southeast to some eroded formations and bluffs present in this part of Bisti/De-Na-Zin Wilderness Area. What I wanted to capture with this image was to raise the horizon higher into the image and bring more of a sense of grandeur to the bluffs off in the distance as a backdrop. I angled my Nikon SLR camera slightly downward to bring out a more of a sweeping view for that effect. I did though want I have a little bit of blue skies and clouds above, as I felt they were a color contrast to complement the earth-tones in the lower portion of the image.

Exploring Shenandoah National Park in Hiking Boots by Mark Stevens Via Flickr: While on the Stony Man Trail and a view looking to the southeast at a large rock and boulder formation noted on a forest map. This is in Shenandoah National Park.

Walking Along the Appalachian Trail in Shenandoah National Park by Mark Stevens Via Flickr: While walking along the Bearfence Mountain Trail and a view looking down to a marker post for the Appalachian Trail. This is in Shenandoah National Park. With this image, I attempted to center the marker post more or less in the image center, but pull back on the focal length to include some of the nearby trail as well as national park landscape.

Hightop Mountain (Shenandoah National Park) by Mark Stevens Via Flickr: A setting looking to the east-southeast while taking in views up the Hightop mountainside present in this part of the Northern Blue Ridge at the Swift Run Overlook. This is in Shenandoah National Park.