Adirondack River Pine_BW

Paddling down the Saint Regis River, I admired a lone white pine surrounded by tamaracks as I rounded an island, and then noticed the leading lines of the grass in the channel. I was “shooting from the hip” (which I practice a lot) holding the camera close to the water, over the edge of the kayak as I drifted downstream.

With practice, aiming instinctively can be quite accurate, but still I make sure I shoot lots of frames. As a result, I have quite a few "keepers" from this experience. I am posting another view of this in the Weekly Challenge Gallery HERE, but in color. I'd appreciate any comments comparing the two.

THANKS

Canon 50D
Sigma 17-70mm. f/2.8;
1/250 sec. @ f/11; ISO 200
Handheld from Kayak
I shot this over two years ago, and just reprocessed it in Nik Silver Efex Pro 2. After that, I thought of trying duotone on it, so I did that in ACR.

UPDATE: Ugh... Ken Smith just pointed out that I have some colors gone wild here, so how this looks may depend a lot on your browser and your monitor. When I applied the duotone on my system, it was more subtle, and not at all pink. One of those problems with converting to sRGB and also dealing with different monitors.