Alpine Driftwood
by Jim Zablotny
On our trip, we stopped at an alpine lake in the Cascades and while Jenny walked the pups, I wandered around the lakeshore. This dead snag had some intriguing textures and shapes so I photographed the array of weathered roots. I square cropped the image and there was a very limited range of colors so I converted it to BW. K5 IIs 18-35mm f1.8 (1/30 sec at f4.5, ISO 160, 32 mm)........................Jim
Comments
8 commentsFascinating find for sure. Can't say I've ever seen a piece of driftwood like this - and for you, which of course made this a very worthy subject!
Lot's of shapes and textures to explore here and despite being quite random and chaotic, there seems to be some controlled order here. Maybe it's the tonality.
For me, I would consider playing with the processing a bit. It seems bright overall (which may have been intent.) Perhaps some deeper blacks and some contrast overall might do the trick. Of course at this point it's all about personal interpretation.
The only other suggestion might be a slight crop to eliminate the revealed background up top. There's also a little knob sticking up in that space that catches my eye. There are other spaces that reveal the ground that maybe you could burn down a little, but those aren't that problematic.
I like this a lot and think some minor tweaks would take this up a notch.
Lon