A small series I shot last September, on 2 separate hikes to waterfalls. I did shoot either falls, and have posted here already, but this set is not about that. It is about the journey, with it's own beauty to see, to those destinations. The diffuse light from a mostly overcast sky, along with the saturated colours from moist conditions of intermittent showers I thought gave these scenes a surreal, story-like appearance. In fact, the urge to have named this after a movie or Led Zepplin song was strong...
Nice shots here, and a good idea to photograph your journey, which I certainly have never done. I guess sometimes we get set on just going to a location.
2 and 5 are my favourites.
The second is very interesting to me because you have a snakeing path which the eye follows, hitting a tree along the way, but this tree also forms the fram for a distict passageway on the left of the shot. That works really well for me and its hard for me to say why, because usually I would say that tree stops you from enjoying the image, but in this case it is the opposite.
5 is beautifully composed and the snaking red leaves in the bottom right echo the path beautifully.
This is a good series, David, of what looks like a very pleasant walk. I particularly like 2, 3 and 5. Lovely colour and appealing light. Nicely done.
peter
Mar 21, 2008 at 06:14 PM
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Very interesting and pleasant walk through the forest. I love these big-footed trees and you have made the most of them, and also the staircase, in your compositions. Vancouver Island is full of forest walks like this - mostly leading to beaches.
Sorry everyone for the delayed response....spring is almost here and my work schedule should return to something resembling normal possibly soon...
Thank you all for the time you took to comment! Here is the other version I shot of #2, which I call: ...how years ago and days of old,
when magic filled the air...:
very beautiful location and well composed images, too bad there a yellowish cast, i've tried to get rid of it in CS3, and it looks more natural and eye pleasing, if you may i will upload one just as an example...
Ute, Barry and lionking, thank you all for looking and commenting, I'm glad you like these!
Lionking, please feel free to repost your edit of one to help express your thoughts. Although the colouring I used to hopefully help accentuate the beginnings of the autumn colours and to partially emanate a Kodachrome look that I've come to like a lot since discovering SHORPY - The 100-year-old Photo Blog, I'm interested to see your take on the scene.
Lionking, yes that is a good representation of how the scene actually looked, except for the blue/violet tone the tree trunks took on with editing this little jpeg - easily prevented with the RAW. I thank you again for your input!
