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Dajavu
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p.1 #1 · Not the Destination, But The Journey


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...

C&C always welcome!

1) Not as sharp as I would have hoped, but was the inspiration for this whole series, so I feel obliged to include it:





2) The strongest urge to name this pic after a certain movie about little characters with big feet transporting a piece of jewelry...especially a landscape version I also shot that I will post in it's own thread later:





3) Wasn't sure about some of what appears as perspective distortion in the trees, although this one the trees actually did slant away from each other to begin with:





4) The trail isn't as strong in this one, but it is there, a little squeeze between the trees:





5) The Staircase - I probably would have just cut the trail around that little hummock, but someone else figured maybe it was an interesting feature to go over it:





6) Closer view of The Staircase, it just goes up this side, then down the other:





7) Finale - Got a little sliver of sun through the trees for this one. Mostly what that meant was more editing for me to keep control of the shadows and highlights:






Edited on Mar 21, 2008 at 09:19 PM


Mar 21, 2008 at 09:18 PM
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p.1 #2 · Not the Destination, But The Journey


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.

Alex



Mar 21, 2008 at 09:43 PM
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p.1 #3 · Not the Destination, But The Journey


I like number 2 because of the interesting lines on the ground contrasting with the interesting lines of the vertical trees.

Mar 21, 2008 at 10:33 PM
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p.1 #4 · Not the Destination, But The Journey


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 11:14 PM
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p.1 #5 · Not the Destination, But The Journey


Great set David - thanks for taking us along with you
Well done.
David


Mar 21, 2008 at 11:44 PM
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p.1 #6 · Not the Destination, But The Journey


Beautiful series! I definitely can see Frodo and Samwise running through #2.

Thanks for sharing.

Jo

Mar 22, 2008 at 01:36 AM
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p.1 #7 · Not the Destination, But The Journey


Hi, David.

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.

Mar 22, 2008 at 10:50 AM
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p.1 #8 · Not the Destination, But The Journey


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!

Edited by Dajavu on Mar 28, 2008 at 11:03 PM GMT (Reason: oops, pressed the button 1 too many times!)

Edited by Dajavu on Mar 28, 2008 at 11:03 PM GMT (Reason: it's been a long day....)

Edited on Mar 29, 2008 at 06:03 AM


Mar 29, 2008 at 06:01 AM
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p.1 #9 · Not the Destination, But The Journey


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...
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Edited by Dajavu on Mar 29, 2008 at 11:18 AM GMT (Reason: replaced embedded Pbase version of pic (yuk) with personally hosted one.)

Edited on Mar 29, 2008 at 06:18 PM


Mar 29, 2008 at 06:02 AM
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p.1 #10 · Not the Destination, But The Journey


A beautiful set, inviting me straight into the lovely walk.
Ute

Mar 29, 2008 at 09:05 AM
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p.1 #11 · Not the Destination, But The Journey


Lovely and inviting set, indeed, David! I'd love to take the trails just to see where they lead!

Barry

Mar 29, 2008 at 12:24 PM
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p.1 #12 · Not the Destination, But The Journey


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...


Mar 29, 2008 at 05:59 PM
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p.1 #13 · Not the Destination, But The Journey


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.


David

Mar 29, 2008 at 06:24 PM
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p.1 #14 · Not the Destination, But The Journey


Of course its not from the raw, so it wont express the full potential, but :



This image is copyrighted by the owner




I hope you like it

Mar 29, 2008 at 07:42 PM
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p.1 #15 · Not the Destination, But The Journey


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!

David

Apr 07, 2008 at 04:31 AM

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