A Walk In The Woods

Gallery: LandscapePosted July 30, 2011408 views23 comments

I was up in northern WI the last few days dropping pictures off at a couple of galleries that have some of my work. I stayed at my sisters cabin on a beautiful small lake. On this morning we had some nice soft light and fog which made walking in the woods wonderful. I really enjoyed the three days I stayed there listening to loons on the lake and walking in the woods. Thanks for looking.
5D2, 24-105@105, f/14 and 2.0 sec exp.
I also posted another view of these woods in M&N gallery.

Comments

23 comments

Comment posted by Charlie Baugh on July 30, 2011 at 7:03 PM

This is a lush, lovely, natural scene, Nick. Your choice of composition gives the lush grasses great prominance and I wonder (and hope) if you took others of this view or have cropped this tall to allow a scene of trees, lichens prominance? This is not a preference by me because I love this as posted. The lovely woods, I just know has other inviting views.

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Comment posted by Tony Kuyper on July 30, 2011 at 7:06 PM

Really like the intense green and textures here. The OOF background seems to add to the "fog-light" that illuminates the scene.

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Comment posted by Nick Bristol on July 30, 2011 at 7:17 PM

Thanks Charlie and Tony. I do have a few different views in this woods Charlie!

Tony, My feeling too was if I kept the background a little softer it would add to the feeling of this, and I hope it does.
Thanks guys. Nick

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Comment posted by Tom Haxby on July 30, 2011 at 8:19 PM

Nick: This is beautiful and I cannot see a single mosquito :) . Nice composition, light and wonderful greens.

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Comment posted by Nick Bristol on July 30, 2011 at 8:30 PM

Hey Tom, Thank you! There were mosquitos

but I have seen them worse. Hope to see you in the UP this fall. Nick

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Comment posted by Nancy Lea Sandy on July 30, 2011 at 10:54 PM

The mood is soft and sweet, wonderful light and the predominance of greens makes this image very easy on the eyes.

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Comment posted by Bruce King on July 31, 2011 at 1:46 AM

Nice capture Nick. The twigs make it seem a little busy in areas but overall a beautiful scene.

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Comment posted by Peter Richter on July 31, 2011 at 3:30 PM

Nick, your composition works very well for me, I like the variatiety of greens and all the different textures. Your captured the grasses wonderfully tangible to me. I also appreciate your choice of depth of field that separates the two foreground trees nicely for me.

Peter

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Comment posted by Robert Stough on July 31, 2011 at 4:42 PM

Real nice forest scene Nick. The sharp foreground leading into the softer background woods works very well here.

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Comment posted by Matt Anderson on July 31, 2011 at 6:19 PM

A classic Northern shot, and Nick, you've framed this quite nicely. That's about as clean a shot as we're going to get around here! (twigs and debris) Beautiful!

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Comment posted by Nick Bristol on July 31, 2011 at 6:55 PM

Thank you for your comments on this one so far. I really appreciate them. This was some of the nicest light and conditions in the woods that I have had for quite awhile now, and I really enjoyed it.
Matt, Yes...it really is pretty hard getting a clean shot in the woods here. I wandered around quite a bit trying to come up with a shot that I knew I just wasn't going to toss away later (or at least hoped not too).

Nick

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Comment posted by Morris McClung on July 31, 2011 at 7:22 PM

Your emotional connection to this place and it's conditions come through really well in this image. A beautiful, quiet, peaceful place. Lovely work!

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Comment posted by Ian Cameron on July 31, 2011 at 7:35 PM

This is lovely Nick a beautiful natural looking woods and a carpet of green to settle down in and enjoy its minty coolness. Looks like you have been forcing your 5D into a 6x7 format.

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Comment posted by Nick Bristol on July 31, 2011 at 7:38 PM

Thanks Ian...

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Comment posted by Dean Sauskojus on July 31, 2011 at 8:22 PM

This is a great shot, no doubt about it. The two main trees are lovely. The green lichens spectacular. I could see cropping this as a vertical with the focus on those two trees but I like as is too. Great work Nick!

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Comment posted by Stan Rose on July 31, 2011 at 10:34 PM

Interesting shot--nice select focus and its very very green!

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Comment posted by Hamed Musharbak on August 1, 2011 at 1:37 PM

this is nice Nick, i like the vibrant color

Hamed

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Comment posted by Rudy Ruberti on August 1, 2011 at 7:18 PM

I really like the strong greens and comp. There's a nice depth to this with the open space around the main trees, and the bright green draws me into the scene. Nicely done.

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Comment posted by Floris van Breugel on August 1, 2011 at 10:33 PM

Love the greenery and atmosphere, Nick. The shallow depth of field works perfectly too.

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Comment posted by Anthony Vincent on August 2, 2011 at 8:33 PM

Gorgeous Nick
Nice vibrancy and love the scene you picked out.

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Comment posted by Nick Bristol on August 3, 2011 at 8:50 PM

Thanks so much for all of your thoughts on this. As always, much appreciated. Thank you, Nick

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Comment posted by Kah Kit Yoong on August 4, 2011 at 3:16 AM

The two main subjects, echoed hold everything together well compositionally. Very well done.

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Comment posted by Nick Bristol on August 5, 2011 at 10:28 AM

Thanks Kah! Nick

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