Photo of the Month 11/08

Wow love this...the flecks of colour due to the leaves in the FG is nice. Great light, comp

You have a magenta cast in the water which i would remove though :)

Wow!! One sweet shot!!

That is one sweet foreground leading to the background fall colours. Excellent exposure on the water and fg rocks, very nice Fall scene John!.

Wonderful composition...Joe.

Rock, water, fall colors - they generally go very well together when composed right. This one a great example of that. This also gives an impression that you are standing on the water - nice work John

wow! the negative space in the foreground steps my eyes all the way through the image. wonderful use of space.

Very interesting composition, and beautiful colors.

WOW, this is fantastic John! Great color and such a vibrant scene. Perhaps my all time favorite of yours! I do agree with Steve on the color cast in the water but that's an easy fix. Super image.

I'm not really sure why but I really, really like this image. I agree about the magenta cast noted by Steve but that's a very minor critique. Great work, John!

Wow, this is quite lovely, great light and glow on the hillside downstream. Well done.

For me, this really serves as a pleasant reminder of the cool, crisp, and damp autumn days that I love so much. Great composition - I really like the contrast in texture between the soft water and the jagged rocks. Beautiful fall scene!

Very nice work! A well composed beautiful scene.

I really love the slickness of the rock formations.
Looks so much better than if it were dry.
Nice fall color in the background.
Looks a little dangerous too.

Excellent +++.

sweet shot...love the way you have composed it. everything goes together very well.

There's a Split Rock falls on the Boquet River off of Route 9 -- is this it? In any event nicely done!

One and the same Ian, and your right, it is the Boquet.
John

An Awesome shot

Really nice! Love the perspective, very much puts me in the scene. Like the color and comp too. Fine work.

Love the rickety staircase of this cascade, and the fall color helps tie the whole image together.

David M. Cobb

Nice work. I think it's harder to get a good shot looking downstream, but I think you pulled it off here.

This is really sweet. I love the patterns of the foreground rocks and the beautiful colors in the back.

- Dan.

This is gorgeous! The composition is fantastic, with the foreground cascade, and the trees at the sides framing the fall colors in the back. Very well done!

Chris

What a view! Excellent shot, John.

This is perfection!

wonderful.

Hi John,

That's an excellent composition to show off the falls and frame the autumn colors. I think the leaves on the FG rocks are also a nice subtle touch that really finishes off the comp, too.

(I see I missed your two previous posts, which were fantastic. Had kind of a rough week with the chemo, so I have not been online much, other than posting in Avian and Flora on Monday -- will catch up with E-mail later today.)

Masterful comp. The scene is subtle yet spectacular which I think will give this image a lot of longevity.

WOW You know how much I love going to Split Rock. You definately did it justice...perfect lighting and beautiful colors. Absolutely Awesome!! Love it!

What an amazing image. Among your best. A supberb presentation.

John,

This is just beautiful.

This is suhweet! Great perspective! This comp is killer, John!

This is a great composition with excellent dynamics and a draw-in effect. It's an almost tunnel-like view. Very well done!

Yummy, dreamy colors and just packed with detail. Amazing!

This is really nice John. I like the muted colors of the leaves. This fall I'm seeing a lot of prints from customers that are working on their pictures in PS and everyone seems to have found the saturation tool - a little bit goes a long way.
Love the detail and color of the rocks.

Congrats on the EP John - very much deserved.

Hi John, just an amazing capture overall. I think I recall you had another look at these falls from this angle quite sometime back, but I'm not too sure about that. This really has the fall or autumn look and feel to the entire scene. Very impressive. Congratualtions too on the EP selection in this category for this past week. Take care.....

Way to go John!
No reason I can't comment twice. First time I forgot to mention that even the thumbnail draws the viewer into the heart of this image. Contrats on the EP.

Owwww! Hit my jaw on the desk top when this opened. Spectacular scene superbly captured. Congrats on a well deserved EP. >=))>

Congrats on your EP. Well deserved.

The almost B+W foreground contrasting with the brilliant warm colours in the background are great. I really feel part of the scene - you took me there with you - thanks for the journey! Darwin

Don't know how I missed this one, it is just perfect in every way. The boldness and starkness of the foreground rocks leads you right into the lacey foliage of vibrant colors. Love it!

What a beautiful vision! I love the extraordinary rythm, sense and direction of the image, in capture and editing, of light tones and contrast, of saturation and sharpness; that is all. A splendid work. A copybook.

John, as we have known each other for many years now it was especially nice this morning to open up NPN and see one of your recent images selected as the photo of the month here. Your dedication and pursuit of these excellent scenes are always at the top of the category.

Excellent photo. The magenta 'cast' is exactly what you would see in a cool, shaded part of the gully and provides a nice tonal complement to the rich yellow and orange of the trees. Looking down the falls leads one nicely into the picture. Also like the blurred upper frame, it suggests that there is more to see, maybe. Did you realise that the aspect ratio is almost 4/3?