Submitter's name:	Scott Gomez
Title:	Antelope Valley
Gear used:	OM-4T + 16/3.5
Diaphragm:	f22
Shutter speed:	Auto/unrecorded
Film used:	Fuji Reala 100
Technical information:	Scanned on Acer ScanWit 2720S. Level-adjusted, corrected for accurate color and dust specs cleaned up in Photoshop. Then resized for TOPE and very slightly un-sharp masked.
Subject information:	I was out experimenting with a newly acquired and CLA'd 16/3.5. It's difficult to tell that I was perched on the edge of what is about a 60 degree slope above the valley. Furthest points range from 10 miles (16km) to more than 30 miles (50km) distant. The shot is west from the foothills of the Ord mountains across the Antelope Valley (valley floor altitude is about 4000 ft/1220 meters) and Mojave River. On the horizon, left center, are the western end of the San Bernardino range (nearer) and the eastern end of the San Gabriels, separated by the San Andreas fault.
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Comment left by: Olaf Greve (no e-mail specified)

I like the way this picture gives you the idea you're at the top of a rollercoaster ride, at the moment where the cart is suspended right before it takes a rapid plunge downwards. Nicely done!

Comment left by: Winsor (wincros@earthlink.net)

Talk about landscape. The use of the lens to curve the horizon makes it look like the whole continent is pulled into the lens. Very creative.

Comment left by: Wayne Harridge (no e-mail specified)

Nice use of the 16

Comment left by: Roger Wesson (roger@worldtraveller.f9.co.uk)

Very cool! One of the most eye-catching entries, I reckon. That's two very impressive shots involving pylons in the TOPE - never knew they could be so photogenic. The composition is dramatic. My only suggestion would be that the hill at the left could do with some detail in - that and the tiny little bit of flare mean I can't follow the power lines as far off into the distance as I'd like.

Comment left by: bbbean (bbbean@beancotton.com)

I like the curve of the horizon being countered by teh curve of the gulley.

Comment left by: Xato (no e-mail specified)

Wonderful photo. The 16 is one of my favorites. If you had put the horizon in the middle of the pic and kept it level, you could hardly tell that it was done by a fisheye. But I got sort of turned around by your description in that doesn't the west end of the San Bernardino range meet the east end of the San Gabriels? Again a fine photo but please don't tell us you took this from your living room window.

Comment left by: Embarrassed Photog (no e-mail specified)

Xato, you are exactly correct. One of these days I will have finally trained my fingers to type what I mean. :-)

Comment left by: Richard Man (no e-mail specified)

Wow. I always wonder how I can chop off those "annoying wires." Now I see one can use them effectively too. Nice pic. // richard

Comment left by: Mike Lazzari (no e-mail specified)

Good use of the wires to draw one into the picture. It connects the foreground with the background. I don't mind the flare. (with the 180 deg view of the 16 you either get photographer's shadow or flare) My monitor shows a slight yellow cast.

Comment left by: Jim Caldwell (jamesfc@gte.net)

Scott, if this had been shot with any other lens, I doubt if it would have succeeded so well! The distortion of the 16mm lens really adds to the shot!

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