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A Wide Angle View Looking Across Petroglyph National Monument and a Backdrop of the Sandia Mountains by Mark Stevens Via Flickr: A setting looking to the east while taking in views across the mountain desert landscape present in the Volcanoes portion of Petroglyph National Monument. In composing this image, I angled my Nikon SLR camera slightly downward and pulled back on the vocal length. I wanted a wide angle view and to raise the horizon higher into the image. That would bring the mountains above center and perhaps minimize some of the flattening that would come from a wide angle view.

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Taking Stock of Beautiful Places with Shiprock by Mark Stevens Via Flickr: A setting looking to the southeast while taking in views across the northern New Mexico high desert with a distant view to the Shiprock formation. This is at a roadside pullout along U.S. Route 64. With this image, I zoomed in with the focal length to include more of the surrounding landscape to add to the setting in the image captured. I also liked having a leveled-on view with the horizon in keeping a balance between the earth-tones in the lower portion of the image with the blues of the skies above.

My Time Exploring Mono Lake by Mark Stevens Via Flickr: While walking around the South Tufa area at Mono Lake with a view looking to the south to tufa towers and other formations present. Mono Lake-48

Letting Nature Pamper Me with Snapshots of Mono Lake by Mark Stevens Via Flickr: While walking around the South Tufa area at Mono Lake with a view looking to the north to tufa towers and other formations present. Mono Lake-54

Traffic and Drivers Along US Route 95 in Nevada by Mark Stevens Via Flickr: A roadside pullout looking to the south as cars passed by. What I wanted to capture with this image was to use the highway as a leading line and include some other Mojave Desert type relief with the ridges and peaks on both sides of the highway, and then off in the distance.