Grand Trunk

Gallery: LandscapePosted December 12, 2009317 views12 comments

More from Caddo Lake

This is an older scan, and the best I have, so I'm aware that it might create a compression problem. I don't want to dig out the chrome to scan it again, so apologies.

Tachihara 8x10, Velvia 50, 480mm Nikon, 2 minutes at f-90

Comments

12 comments

Comment posted by Robert Dayton on December 12, 2009 at 9:34 PM

Great lines and shapes. I like it.

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Comment posted by Ben Horne on December 12, 2009 at 9:56 PM

The trees look like soldiers. I really like the repetition between the trees, ans the contrast between the soft green and the dark orange. I bet the original transparency on a light table is downright amazing. I don't think the green plant in the midground on the floor contributes to the composition here, but without it the shot would look too perfect... as though it was created with CG. Awesome work!

Registered on August 27, 2009, 51 Posts, 959 Comments

Comment posted by Tony Kuyper on December 12, 2009 at 10:01 PM

Excellent, Michael. I like everything about it.

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Comment posted by Kathy Odiorne on December 12, 2009 at 10:34 PM

Very cool and otherworldly. Nice work.

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Comment posted by Dean Sauskojus on December 13, 2009 at 3:32 AM

Getting an 8x10 around here must be a challenge. Lovely colors on the trees and the ground cover. Nice work.

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Comment posted by Morris McClung on December 13, 2009 at 9:13 AM

Really nice comp and the greens and red colors go together perfectly. Excellent work.

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Comment posted by Barry Vangrov on December 13, 2009 at 10:22 AM

Beautiful. Only suggestion would be to tone down the green plants just a little bit to make them a little obvious but that's a tiny issue. Other than that - perfect.

Registered on September 1, 2009, 148 Posts, 749 Comments

Comment posted by Guy Tal on December 13, 2009 at 12:11 PM

I have never seen a place like it in person and I'm truly fascinated by it. I love the interesting palette of the mosses and fallen needles. Your images from here are some of my favorites in your portfolio.

Guy

Registered on November 1, 2003, 566 Posts, 15507 Comments

Comment posted by Chris White on December 13, 2009 at 5:50 PM

Michael,

Another beautiful shot of one of my favorite ecosystems. Thanks for posting these.

I dunno what was to to the lower left that may have been driving your composition, but: this area seems a little little pinched against the frame boundary, and I wonder how a composition that didn't push the closest tree and knee, even sacrificing a bit of the lovely high moss and more uniform rhs of the frame, might have looked...

Chris

Registered on February 27, 2007, 61 Posts, 945 Comments

Comment posted by Jeff Hackett on December 13, 2009 at 11:09 PM

I really like this image Michael! The color changes, the lines, the composition of the trunks. Very,Very nice.

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Comment posted by David Chauvin on December 14, 2009 at 7:36 AM

This is my favorite of your recent cypress images, Michael. The heavy moss and stacked trunks shows the density of this stand of trees.

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Comment posted by Ed Williams on March 19, 2018 at 2:25 PM

This looks like a brooding primeval forest. I love the columns of trunks and the mosses.

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