Sometimes It's Fun to Walk Around a Visitors Center and Explore the Nearby Views (Black & White, Saguaro National Park)

            While the friend who I was with was doing a few things within the visitor center, I had a chance to spend some time walking around and exploring some of the views around that area. Most of the time I spent avoiding views to the east with the brighter lights of the Sun coming across the Tucson Mountains. On the backside of the visitors center, I found a spot where I was able to compose and image looking across some nearby desert vegetation with varying heights of saguaro cactus and then hillsides and mountain peaks off in the distance.

For processing this image, I converted it to black and white using a Faded Split Toner recipe in Silver Efex Pro 2.

Taken in: United States / Arizona / Pima (show map)

Taken on: June 18, 2016

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Nikon D800E

Day 3

Saguaro National Park Tucson Mountain District (West)

Looking NW

Black & White

Silver Efex Pro 2

Desert

Desert Landscape

Sonoran Desert

Desert Plant Life

Outside

Nature

Saguaro

Cactus

Carnegiea gigantea

Saguaro Cactus

Arborescent (tree-like) Cactus

Cactus Across Desert Landscape

Landscape

Mountains

Mountains in Distance

Mountains off in Distance

Capture NX2 Edited

Color Efex Pro

Around Visitor Center

Intermountain West

Southwest Basins and Ranges

North Sonoran Desert Ranges

West Tucson-Nogales Area

Tucson Mountains

Project365

Portfolio

Rugged Landscapes

Red Hills Visitor Center

Palo Verde

Arizona

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Camera: Nikon D800E, f/5.6, 1/400 sec, 120mm, ISO 100 (more info) (hide info)

Camera:	Nikon D800E
Aperture:	f/5.6
Exposure Time:	0.003 sec (1/400)
Focal Length:	120mm
ISO:	100
Exposure Bias:	0 EV
Flash:	Off, Did not fire
Exposure Program:	Manual
Exposure Mode:	Manual
Metering Mode:	Multi-segment
White Balance:	Auto
Scene Capture Type:	Landscape
Color Space:	Uncalibrated
Software:	Capture NX 2.4.7 M
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