Amicalola river at Hwy 53. This became a study of curves and lines, stillness and motion, and the color of water. I had visited this spot a couple of times before but the water was too high and did not give the feeling of falling over the rocks. While I waited for the sun to rise a bit I studied the relationships of the movement of the water vs the stillness of the bridge and the curves of the arches vs the curved lines in the water falls. The trees above me were swaying in a nice breeze so I knew I would have movement in the leaves with a long exposure. In the final print I minimized the top section because the motion in the leaves were a distration. I also rotated the image a bit so that the horizon is more level even though the river does drop down hill on the opposite side, but this led to the bridge columns not being perpendicular.
This is a B&W scan of the print on ilford MGFB Warmtone with a few artifacts from the scanner that are not in the print.
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