No doubt everyone is tired of all that color by now. So yesterday, a gray and lightly drizzled day, I went looking for monochrome water instead of all those tiresome leaves. But…it is still a favorite place-the Middle Branch of the Swift River in North Quabbin.
What really first attracted my attention-white water is really attractive but a fairly common subject-was the texture of the water streaming in from the right. But I also wanted to do something a little more abstract than just framing it.
Raising and lengthening the exposure did the trick.
I also did make an image from the left, looking upstream at this cascade, but that’s for another post.
And on another subject….I am always confused about using gray or grey. I finally searched to find out the difference. It seems the only difference between them is the audience. British English-Grey…American English-gray. Otherwise the only difference is if it is someone’s last name. 🙂
Stephen Gingold Nature Photography Blog 
Nice flow lines.
I suppose you could try a photo of a grey horse on a gray day.
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Maybe a Clydesdale?
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I was thinking the old gray mare.
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I see. Clydesdales are from Scotland which is why I suggested them for the grey aspect.
Sheesh. Spell correct is really not too sharp. It told me that Clydesdales was misspelled and when I clicked to see what it suggested I got Clydesdale. :-O
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Terrific work Steve. Love the abstract quality and the black and white. I think the second is a favorite, but I really like the first as well. I love the simplicity of the second in particular.
James
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Thanks, James. I made a few versions of this, but the others included more and I felt that narrowing the composition to just the two sides of the flow worked the best.
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Good work on the grey gray – now I don’t have to look it up. I’ve hesitated on that a few times.
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We here at SGNP try to give extra value with our posts. 🙂
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The second is beautifully done. It could be the nicely groomed mane of the Old Gray Mare, hanks of carded wool ready for spinning, grain filling a farmer’s bin, or the sort of satellite water vapor imagery that would make me very, very nervous. I’m having a hard time choosing, here. I usually wouldl have said #1 was my favorite, but there are so many layers to #2, I could look at it a good long time.
Just in case you run out of things to do when it starts getting really, really cold, here’s a fun little photography project you might enjoy. It came to me via Twisted Sifter, but since you’re on FB, I thought you might like the entry that had more photos and the setting information.
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I thought of horse mane or tail, too. Grey and gray confused me for a long while. I tend to use grey in keeping with New Zealand’s British English heritage.
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A horse mane is what several folks on FB mentioned. One suggested her dog’s rear end. Not sure where that came from. 🙂
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It would have to be a very clean rear end!
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The nice thing about an abstract is the variety of interpretations and you’ve listed several good ones, Linda. I hope this didn’t make you too nervous. LOL
Those frozen bubbles are awesome. I watched the video to see the one burst which was cool…literally. I may try that when it gets seriously cold out. Thanks!
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Really cool captures, Steve. Oh, and I completely appreciate the explanation on the difference between Gray and Grey. I knew that and then I keep forgetting.
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Thanks, I.K. Glad to have helped with the greys…or grays. Guaranteed that, given time, I will forget too.
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