10.29.2019 Silent Owens Pond
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Stephen Gingold Nature Photography Blog 
Terrific photo. Very unusual with the very muted fogginess of most of the photo and then a small vividly colored cloud. I think this was a lucky shot but could be wrong and that this is actually more common.
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Yes on both counts, Yvonne. I was lucky to be there but this pond often has ground fog and it’s a great spot for twilight shots. Thanks!
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Based on the reflections at the bottom of your photo, there was another pink cloud higher than the top of the frame, a little to the right of center. Did you think about including it in your picture?
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Chose not.
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If I included the uppermost cloud it would change the tree’s placement in the composition which I did not want so I chose to not include it.
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A spellbinding study in contrasts. It stopped me cold. Then it held onto me.
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Thanks, Michael. I am planning on a print hanging in the house.
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Abso-bleeping-lutely!
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Very cool shot! The red cloud is almost startling in the gray setting.
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Thanks, Robert. Some photographers convert to monochrome and leave a little color. Nature did that for me. 🙂
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I agree with the others, it’s a fascinating contrast between the almost ghostly soft tones of the majority of the image and those red clouds. I like it.
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Thanks, Todd.
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Oh, wow, great image, Steve. Such a peaceful scene with the pop of pink cloud, a promise for the new day to come.
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Owens Pond is a very serene and peaceful spot to start a day. Not far from Route 9 in Amherst and close to the Amherst Woods development yet a little pocket of peace and quiet. Thanks, Eliza.
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I could easily have it on my wall too – silently grey with a startling red. Just like me…
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Thanks, Ann-Christine. So you have red hair? 🙂
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Now I don’t know what you are referring to? The cloud? Well, I was thinking…I always wear colourful accessories to feel a bit merrier in all the greyness that is me!
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No, when you said “like me” I was thinking that you dressed in greys but had red hair. 🙂
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😊
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I found myself imagining a little flock of clouds flying over the fog-bound pond. It’s a beautiful image.
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Thanks, Linda. It was a very small flock. 🙂
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I love the air of mystery around this image. It’s so unexpected, that bright cloud alone, and then its reflection dancing with the reflected branches – wow!! What did you think when you saw this?? I see you’re going to print it – good! 🙂
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I thought “How lucky I am to be here”. 🙂 I may print it, but a good friend who does a lot of printing in his shop in Maine, https://www.markpicard.com/, liked it so much he offered to do a canvas which is scheduled to arrive this afternoon.
I like capturing differing conditions combined for those short moments we experience. Thanks, Lynn.
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How exciting to be waiting for that canvas, wow. Very nice.
“I like capturing differing conditions combined for those short moments we experience.” – nicely put!
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It will be nice, once it arrives. UPS notified me the day before yesterday that it would be here yesterday afternoon. But apparently either my friend or the dispatcher gave the driver the wrong address so maybe today instead.
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