Major Creek 3

From an outing yesterday.

the greens are a bit light as are the yellows....

maybe shoot this in the later evening or early morning....

a slightly longer shutter speed might work well here too....

I do like the area and it looks like the Lewis river area.....

Darren, Desert parsley is not very bright green. For comparison look at Mark Hudon's Major Cr. image on page 2 here. This was taken about 9 in the morning. The wind was already blowing. Notice the movement in some of the brown grass at the front of this image.

I've thought on this over night....I have a sensation that this image is reaching for something and almost achieving it.....but I can't quite say what it is or what might have been done differently. I see lots of potential but when I look at it I just don't "get it."

Sigh....

I'm assuming you didn't use a polarizer? If not I think it would have been useful in order to cut the glare on the water in the upper left...providing, of course, there was enuf of a let up in the wind to allow you to use one.

I didn't use a polarizer, but could have if I bumped up the iso. The thing is, if I cut all the reflection from the water, then it just goes black there in the upper left and loses the watery look. Perhaps used with some discretion, it might have helped. But then a little photoshoping to reduce the glare on the water might do about the same thing in this case. I'm not sure I like the tilted look. I could have tilted the camera a bit to the left, but at the time it looked good through the viewfinder. I wanted to maintain an angled flow to the water through the image to make it a tad more dynamic.