It truly is hard to find words to describe how absolutely cool this trip was, and especially the morning our NXNW crew photographed the famous Mesa Arch Sunrise. This was a really moving experience for me, that is about all I can say….it was truly a special morning. I drained a huge chunk of memory on my card, because this lighting literally changed by the second and it was impossible not to hit the Promote start button and take bracket after bracket. I think everyone did the same.
This was truly Gods country and the morning was amazing, this made the trip for me, watching this happen was just awesome!
The processing was pretty simple, ran it through Photomatix and a little bit of touch up, not much more than that, the flare is courtesy of the 16-35L.
Thoughts and prayers out to the Oklahoma storm victims and families
Thanks for looking!
Bob Lussier
21 May 2013This is Pro Magic.
Peter Talke
21 May 2013Mike, that is awesome!! A dream shot!! A super flare!!!!!
Jim Denham
21 May 2013Stunning image Wiz, and great emotion in your words!
Dave Wilson
21 May 2013What an excellent starburst you got! The Nikon 14-24mm may be an amazing lens but I have yet to figure out how to get clean starbursts from it. My Sigma 15mm is very much better for this.
Len Saltiel
21 May 2013A classic shot of this location Mike. Killer light and capture.
Mark Summerfield
21 May 2013Beauty Mike. Just love the starburst!
Mark Garbowski
21 May 2013I remember standing there and firing off brackets every 20-30 seconds for a long while. At one point I figured we must be done as there had been so many varieties of great light, but nobody else was moving. Then this happened. Glad I stuck around (as well as everyone else of course). Don’t know if my version will live up to Mike’s great shot here.
atmtx
21 May 2013What an absolutely gorgeous sun star. Breathtaking place.
Evan Gearing
21 May 2013Great work as always! You guys rocked that place!
Edith Levy
21 May 2013Aptly name post Mike because this is truly magical. Outstanding.
Jim Nix
21 May 2013freaking EPIC man, love it!!
Chris Nitz
22 May 2013Dude, just DAMN!
Erin Duke
22 May 2013That’s absurdly beautiful. Magic is the perfect description.
Jimi Jones
23 May 2013Really great shot, Mike. Awesome work, man.
Toad Hollow Photo
23 May 2013What a great shot, perfect for HDR! You’ve really brought all the great details out here, my friend, top drawer!!
Captain Kimo
28 May 2013Awesome work on your rendition here.