Here’s one more from my visit to Atherton Brook on November 1. This was actually the first image I took on the trip but only just processed this morning. I was searching for “Egg Rock” and thought I found it tucked down there in the water, but now I am not that sure. Egg or not, I like the arrangement of the three rocks and the flow of the water along with the view of upstream. I experimented with this as a monochrome also, but prefer it in living color, muted though it is.
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It deserves colour and I would describe it as natural rather than muted.
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Mutedly natural, maybe? Naturally muted? I was just disappointed that I had not been there a week earlier when there may have been some red maple leaves lying about.
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I agree with Andrew. It looks very natural. All that is missing is the damp, mulch smell of the woods.
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He will install the ‘Smell This’ button on his next upgrade of WordPress. 🙂
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Excellent! 😉
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Oh, if only I were a bit brighter a programmer…”Smellablog Lite”
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I guess I’m just not artsy enough. Black and white photos of nature don’t touch me like this one does. I may admire them, or be amazed by them, but I don’t respond to them in the same way — unless, of course, the black-and-whiteness is natural, as in snowbound landscapes. This is lovely.
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Not everyone finds Black & White to be enjoyable. I was more interested in color photography from the start and still prefer it. But some subjects do seem more appropriate for monochrome when the color is significantly a distraction to what is being expressed. I have a lot to learn for sure, but am enjoying beginning to see that way and the different requirements for making a good print.
It shan’t be long until some of those natural snowbound landscapes appear here. Maybe even Monday according to latest weather guess.
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Your description of why you like it works perfectly for me. Great shot. Successful on the first one? Never happens to me.
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First shot, but with a lot of looking around first. Most often I shoot into the composition as I analyze and refine things to eliminate what is not necessary. I did try that and ended up liking this better than the ones that removed some of the distant view.
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Beautiful image, love the perspective used to capture the photo.
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Thanks, Charlie. Sometimes luck shines upon me.
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Let’s hear it for muted color. I’m tempted to say that a brook is a brook is a brook, based on the similar features they share, but Atherton Brook seems to have taken on quite a presence for you.
That’s quite a large depth of field you achieved here.
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There are couple that i visit which are blessed with a variety of noteworthy cascades and waterfalls, Atherton Brook being one.
I was disappointed that the foreground didn’t take well with the compression of downsizing, but the whole scene does work well in the full rez.
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me too. Even with muted color it still moves the eye along. Is this the Egg that is referred to in The Great Gatsby?
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No, the Egg Rock I was referring to is here, Melissa. Until I Googled it, I had no idea about the town in The Great Gatsby. Never read it, although I did see the movie version with Robert Redford about a million years ago. 🙂
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Well how fun is that?! That rock totally looks like a moss-covered egg.
I hated the book the first time I read it, but after seeing a couple of versions of the movie I went back and had another look. It grew on me 🙂
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I guess it is an acquired taste. 🙂 I just saw the one and that will suffice.
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