photos: GRD4 - playing in the darkroom

I wandered around the small desert town of Salmome, Arizona a few days ago and then yesterday I played with a couple of the images.  The first one is an HDR from three exposures, processed in NIK HDR 2 (which I broke down an bought the upgrade to) and then spent a lot more time working on it in Lightroom 4.3 doing what I felt was needed that NIK would not give me.  Any and all comments, as always, appreciated.



The next one is from the high value exposure of an HDR set.  I spent some time in Lightroom with just this one frame, trying to create a surreal image.   

- A.