Great light and have a terrific weekend!

We have had some beautiful light in the Ozarks this past few weeks and I found one small pocket of it this afternoon. The full size version of this image reminds me of why I shoot with the equipment and techniques that I do, and why I seek out the right light - the tones are as smooth as silk and the detail is about as realistic as you can get. (downrezzing from 7200 to 720 pixels does cut out a bit of detail)

I hope that everyone who ventures to Arkansas for the gathering this weekend has a terrific time and goes home with lots of great memories (at least several gigs worth). I am teaching a workshop all weekend so won't be able to join you - but as you will find out from Wayne I have invited all of you to stop by my new Buffalo River Gallery Sunday afternoon and have a look at the walls of large canvas prints. (I'll be there after 1pm.) Sorry, I won't have any of that mountain dew on hand....

Thanks Tim, I've let all the attendees know about your offer and most will be able to join us at your new gallery on Sunday. I'm hoping we'll get some light and conditions as nice as this but even if we don't, I'm going to enjoy the chance to build on some friendships from last year and meet some talented nature photographers for the first time.

See you Sunday!

Another one for the portfolio, I'd say. It's good to see that there are places where the boulders haven't been stripped of all their moss by the recent floods.

Now that's a cool shot Tim. I bet that would look great in a 30x40 or something around there. It might cost great to make it too. But, you're right, making it look like real life outdoors is what its all about for me too. Thanks for sharing!
Glenn

Thanks in advance for opening up your gallery, Tim. I'm excited about seeing your prints. This newest photo you've posted is fantastic. Hope you have a great weekend.

Beautiful scene Tim. Would it have been possible to move to the right a hair so that the far end of the stream wasn't blocked by the small tree? Or, did you compose it that way for a reason? Good luck with the workshop.

Hey Glenn, it is about $15 to make a print that large, more on canvas of course, but ink and paper costs are not really all that much these days if you use a big printer with high-capacity inks. I know they all say that ink is more than expensive french champagne, but it actually is much cheaper than that, especially if you use a Canon or HP - Epsons use about the same amount of ink but they trash at least that much and even more just trying to keep their heads clean so you normally pay a lot more per print for Epson ink in the end (I have two Epson fine art printers, two HP fine art printers, and one Canon fine art printer).

Rob: No (five-foot dropoff into deep water an inch to the right). And yes, of course (there was actually a road behind that tree). I generally keep shooting and improving my compositions and technique until I am satisfied it is as good as I can get it and every pixel used (why would you not?) - often 100 or more exposures of the same scene (I did something like 57 for this one). Once the final shots are made it is time to move on and look to future images - I don't waste time wondering if I could have done something different composition-wise.

My workshops are set up so they will work great no matter what the weather or water levels are since much of the weekend is spent indoors at computers - and we can always get out early and late even on sunny days and find plenty to shoot in the shadows! But I hope you guys get some rain tonight and clouds tomorrow so you can shoot all day and consume mountain dew all night...

That's sure some sweet light looking up that holler, Tim. Water color looks great too. Parts of the White River drainage got 4 inches of rain Wednesday night, but I don't think the Richland Creek area saw hardly a drop. When I was over last weekend, the higher elevations around the Upper Buffalo still looked kinda gray. Has that changed much this week? How are the redbuds and dogwoods doing?

Weather.com is forcasting a low of 43 for Jasper Saturday morning, and I'm keeping my fingers crossed that if we get some rain tonight there will be some fog developing overnight.

Some areas are fully leafed out while others are still brown, but overall it is greening up nicely. Some terrific redbuds along 43 uphill from Ponca and a few other places but those are going fast. Lots of dogwoods but many are fading already too, others are still coming out. Lots of rain in some areas yesterday while none elsewhere - it was very spotty. The Mulberry was running high and muddy, as was the Buffalo and Smith Creek, but south of fallsville saw very little. From where I'm typing this I can see over the wilderness almost to fallsville and right now it is raining over there but dry here - I expect we will get some good rain tonight and perhaps sunday too!

Hey Tim, that is a really great shot and will make a great canvas print. I just got back from my short version of the gathering with a great group of photographers. We saw some of this light down in Smith Creek on Friday afternoon and then ventured into the Sweden Creek area this morning. We had a pretty good thunderstorm while we were at Smith Creek, with lots of rain and lightning! Not many places to hide down there!