Beautiful, Bryan
Beautiful, Bryan
"Landscapes exist in the material world yet soar in the realms of the spirit..." Tsung Ping, 5th Century China
Bryan that canopy is wild! Fuzzy looking! What is it? Something like Spanish Moss? And yes...quite an interesting juxtaposition between this and the sharp Yucca's. Equally thrilling/menacing, but in very different ways. Cool!
Thank you both! It is indeed Spanish Moss in the trees, but you may be interested to know that the foreground is not Yuccas, though we do occasionally have those around these parts. These are saw palmettos, which grow everywhere in the wilderness areas of south Georgia and Florida. Similar to palmetto trees but with no main trunk; more of a bush. Compared to Yucca, they have no flowering stalks. The sharp leaves are annoying if trying to bushwack through somewhere, and I have seen many snakes in/around them!!
Very nice. Went to Camasunary Bay a few years back, it's a really beautiful sight as you go down the path with the mountains towering over...Originally Posted by Meekyman
The Cullin, Skye, Scotland
We were very lucky to spend a week on Skye back in October last year. Lucky because it's a beautiful place to visit and lucky just to get away from the day to day grind. This day was amazing - got pelted with large hailstones and amazingly stormy light. The Cullin is the mountain ranges in the distance and the photo was taken from a walk to Camasunary Bay.
The Cullin, Skye by Graham Meek, on Flickr
Chamonix 045N-2, Rodenstock Sironar N 135mm f5.6@f22 and 1/2, 1/4s, Kodak Ektar 100, no filters. Epson V700 scan, colourperfect and lightroom processing.
Saddest thing was to see the large piles of plastic waste on the high tide line. Some bays seem to attract it.
For me, plastic is the elephant in the room - we still produce, purchase and discard plastic items by the mega ton, every day.
Our children's children will wonder what on earth we were thinking of.
They have been for awhile...
"Landscapes exist in the material world yet soar in the realms of the spirit..." Tsung Ping, 5th Century China
Like the way you captured the mood, I was on the island of Rum 4 years ago, spent a morning picking up plastic off the shoreline near the mausoleum. Made a pile as big as a car hoping that someone who lives there would dispose of it. Stuffed my rucksack with a fair amount and put it in the recycling bin back home on the mainland. I now carry a bin bag with me whenever I go to the sea and pick up litter as I explore the coast. I know that it is probably futile but I always feel better for doing it.
^^^ Good on you, Norm.
We need more people like you.
Cypress Stand, Walter F. George Reservoir, near Ft. Gaines, GA
Speed Graphic, 15" f/5.6 Wollensak Tele-Raptar + 6-stop ND filter, T-Max 100 dev'd in Pyrocat (N+1), cropped to 3:5 aspect ratio:
I would've taken this with my 12x20 but I would need a >1500mm lens which I don't have. Or a boat.
I also shot this on Efke which retained highlight detail, but I'm not sure that is really a necessary thing for this image. Thoughts? Here's the Efke shot, and a slightly tighter crop:
My other thought is an early-morning re-shoot of this sometime with a slightly longer lens (500mm should do it) and better light from the rising sun, since I'm aimed roughly west. I was thinking of Michael Kenna's work when I shot this, and here I was going for the look of his silhouettes in snow images.
On the computer screen I can't tell that much. Like the first composition best although if possible would have moved the trees slightly to the right as you did in the second image. Great image!
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