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That really is an awesome shot Austin! I don't know what it is but it draws me in and I keep looking at it. I feel like I can sense the wind.
I went on a 3,000-mile road trip a few years ago, and one of the coolest things my girlfriend and I saw was the lines and lines of turbines on the mountain ridges of West Virginia. Here in south GA, a gradient of 30 feet is the biggest hill in the county. All those mountains and huge structures were fascinating up in the north. Anyway, we got up close to one (as close as you could, anyway) and I'll never forget the sound of the blades as it casually sliced through the air. It wasn't that windy so it was going pretty slow, but you could still feel the motion and the power of the wind and machine. That's the visceral feeling I get from the photo.
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Thanks guys. It's hard to get the scale of the turbines from the picture but let's just say they're enormous. When you're right under them, the sound is actually kind of frightening. It funny, the one turbine that was turning (very slowly) on this day was located behind me over my left shoulder. Every few seconds it would cast a long shadow of a blade across a large part of the scene. Looking back, I probably should have tried to make a picture of that, but at the time I didn't want the shadow in so I timed the shot to fall between the sweeps of the blades. Yeah, a lot of activity for a still-looking picture! :)
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Here's an old one I scanned at about 1:00 last night while I was waiting for the blizzard to hit.
Its another image from the Marais des Cygnes, (the one in Kansas).
http://farm9.staticflickr.com/8385/8...bdbfe4c1_b.jpg
serpentine stream by Clay Percy, on Flickr
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Wow, those trees in the background are incredible!
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Agreed. I kind of like just looking at the image scrolled far enough to get maybe a 6x12 of the top. Very nice handling of exposure and development.
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Very good, Clay! I particularily enjoy that bit of highlight along the upper part of the creek...and the different textures in the image. It looks to be fun area to works in.
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Great one, Clay!
Love the S curve!
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For me, the little water ripple makes this photograph amazing. Love the saturated Velvia colors as well.
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Wow, those trees in the background are incredible!
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Agreed. I kind of like just looking at the image scrolled far enough to get maybe a 6x12 of the top. Very nice handling of exposure and development.
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Very good, Clay! I particularily enjoy that bit of highlight along the upper part of the creek...and the different textures in the image. It looks to be fun area to works in.
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Great one, Clay!
Love the S curve!
Thank you guys,
h2oman, the trees in the upper portion of the image become more significant when you make a nice big print out of it, but you are right the trees cropped off the top make a nice image on their own.
Vaughn the Marais des Cygnes Waterfowl Area, is a very nice place to work, there is a lot of easy access with flooded fields filled with water lilies and waterfowl, just got to watch out during duck season.
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Here's an old one I scanned at about 1:00 last night while I was waiting for the blizzard to hit.
Its another image from the Marais des Cygnes, (the one in Kansas).
Really nice shot, Clay.
