Tanque Verde Ranch/ Mesquite Brush

Nice! They certainly go together well.

Interesting continuum between the two pictures. Very cool how they grow together, same scene, different perspective, one flowing into the other. Even though you separated the two pictures my eye wanders seamlessly between them.
The intensity of the highlights is really interesting and beautiful. Delicate tones convey a mysterious mood. All this, and I look at your picture, and I find it interesting that you could convey all of that to me with a couple of trees and a good eye.

Thanks for the input and careful observations Thomas. I originally printed both frames and couldn't decide if either was worth of my wall. I tossed them on a table and they landed together like that. I fell in love with the combination. This is the only pairing like this I have ever done.

This crystallizes something I have thought about diptychs (and triptychs) for a while, that they are really super mini-portfolios. All too often they seem to be just 2 (or 3) of something where the relationship is the arbitrary one of linking them - the sum not being greater than the parts.

This demands to be evaluated and compared.

I particularly like the way the in/out focused branches work with both images together.