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I Sat on the Grasses of a Meadow One Morning (Black & White, Theodore Roosevelt National Park) by Mark Stevens Via Flickr: After doing some initial work in Capture NX2 for saturation, brightness, and contrast, I performed a conversion to black & white where I then used some color filters to bring out a much richer tonal contrast for the final image.

Focused from Near to Far (Theodore Roosevelt National Park) by Mark Stevens Via Flickr: For this image, I found a point nearby to focus while closing down the aperture on my Nikon SLR camera to capture this view at a stop named Slump Block Pullout. Composing this image was then just a matter of getting down (after walking a few steps back) near some taller grasses. I let the formations then fill the remaining portion of the image with a little bit of blue skies above. My thinking was that slight upward angle and sliver of skies would add a sense of depth for the final image processed.