Saw this farm on the road & had to stop for awhile. This scene unfolded as I waited. Effects added in Nik, to evoke what I saw in my minds eye at the time. 5 minutes after I took this, my best friend's wife texted me to call and say goodbye to him. The Dr's could do no more. It was a long battle against Acute Myeloid Leukemia. He fought for over 2 1/2 years. He succumbed today. Toughest guy I ever knew.
Looking at a Snowy Egret in breeding plumage in the foreground and a Wood Stork in the background. The difference in size between the birds is quite evident and a "spray" of water droplets can be seen falling from the bill of the Snowy Egret.
Cropped from the left and the right, tripod mounted 200-600mm G set to 200mm and A7rIII; silent shutter.
ISO 100, f6.3, 1/100 second.
Exposure Corrected +0.29 Stops.
January 6, 2020
At Gatorland, Orlando or Kissimmee, FL.
This is a picture of how I often experience this part of my home. It is a complicated picture that I like a lot, but I am not sure whether others will also. It was shot from inside the house through a double-pane glass door out toward the deck and the water. The house interior was lit only by the Christmas lights on the deck, thus making possible the strong reflections of the house interior. I like how the reflections of the house interior fall compositionally together with the exterior elements in the shot.
The picture actually puts me in mind of a famous quote from Virginia Woolf: "Life is not a series of gig lamps symmetrically arranged; life is a luminous halo, a semi-transparent envelope surrounding us from the beginning of consciousness to the end."
So this is the semi-transparent luminous halo of consciousness that I experience inside my home during the Christmas season, and that is a key reason that I like the photograph.
Plenty of time on my hands; looking at some old files I never processed, and now working on them with the latest digital tools, and my upgraded, much more powerful computer. This image from May 2017. Sony A7RII, 16-35mm f4 lens at 16mm, converted to B&W.
Thanks for looking
Dave in NJ
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