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Upper Tahquamenon
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Upper Tahquamenon

by Brian Vance

Gallery: LandscapePosted February 3, 201163 views4 comments
I ventured into the UP for a short trip a week or so ago looking for winter scenics. The skies were gray and overcast for the most part, but I did catch the warm light of late afternoon sun over the upper Tahquamenon River on one fine January day. I would've ventured further out for a better composition, but the cracking of ice under my feet told me I had gone far enough.

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4 comments
Comment posted by Kendall Hetrick on February 4, 2011 at 9:14 PM
As usual we work with what we have I like the shot think it would be better without the brush on the left. Like the line of the water though.
Registered on April 14, 2008, 6 Posts, 60 Comments
Comment posted by Michael Dougherty on February 8, 2011 at 6:05 PM
Brian - nothing like the sound of cracking ice below your feet to make you stop and think... :smile: Looks like a lovely spot. The level seems a bit askew to me looking at the river and the bend.
Registered on March 7, 2009, 4 Posts, 15 Comments
Comment posted by Brian Vance on February 15, 2011 at 1:57 PM
Thanks for the comments, they are always appreciated. Kendall, I agree about the crop, I think it could use one from both the left and off the top some. Mike, I also wondered about the horizontal line and I think it is something of an optical illusion here, because I used the tree trunk reflections as my guide and oriented the image to be perpendicular to the reflections.
Registered on October 31, 2008, 26 Posts, 136 Comments
Comment posted by Kerry Leibowitz on February 22, 2011 at 1:41 PM
If you heard cracking under your feet you made the right call not going any further, Brian.

I like the light here, and the inclusion of the green of the evergreens but I'm missing something providing a better sense of depth. Some shots seem to work fine as naturally two-dimensional views, but this scene is begging for more of a 3-D feel to it and it's not really coming together for me. Of course, that's probably a function of your inability to work the shot the way you'd have preferred, due to the situation with the cracking ice.
Registered on November 1, 2003, 167 Posts, 5800 Comments