I'd been trying for the last several weeks to get down to the redwoods, but it just wasn't working out for one reason or another. I finally made a stop in Del Norte County for a few hours after a weekend backpack through the Kalmiopsis Wilderness. Didn't get any exciting light or big doses of fog, but the Rhodies were still putting on a pretty good show in this area. In general, I wasn't too thrilled with my efforts for the morning, but at least I cured my redwood hankerin' for a while.
Very well structured. I love how the curve of the rhodies in the foreground leads into the trees in the background and the trees then curve back to the closest rhodies.
I like the rhodies in the foreground. Excellent shot!
Posted by Greg Vaughn on June 17, 2009 at 12:42 AM
Very well done and it looks like a good year for the Rhododendrons. I think the lack of fog was a plus here - too much of it would have obscured the mass of blossoms in the middle distance. Great composition, great processing.
Moments before this, the area was perfectly foggy. I had stashed my pack down the hill a ways because I was standing on a large fallen redwood that was a little tricky to navigate with all my gear on my back. So I set up the composition, but the ULHC rhodies were hanging too far into the frame. I went back down the log to get some nylon parachute cord from my pack to tie the branch back. I ended up bumping into another photographer and we started B.S.ing for a good while about how great the fog was, and the blooms, and blah,blah,blah. Pretty soon we both realized that while we were talking the fog had pretty much blown out. We scrambled our separate ways to get back to work, but it was too late. Fog was all but gone.
It was a lot of work for this composition; And I'm pretty pleased with it. But it could have been a LOT better if I'd snapped it about 10 minutes sooner.
I particularly like the depth with which the rhodies extend into the image....most of the images I see from here have them in the immediate FG and that's it. Excellent composition.
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Moments before this, the area was perfectly foggy. I had stashed my pack down the hill a ways because I was standing on a large fallen redwood that was a little tricky to navigate with all my gear on my back. So I set up the composition, but the ULHC rhodies were hanging too far into the frame. I went back down the log to get some nylon parachute cord from my pack to tie the branch back. I ended up bumping into another photographer and we started B.S.ing for a good while about how great the fog was, and the blooms, and blah,blah,blah. Pretty soon we both realized that while we were talking the fog had pretty much blown out. We scrambled our separate ways to get back to work, but it was too late. Fog was all but gone.
It was a lot of work for this composition; And I'm pretty pleased with it. But it could have been a LOT better if I'd snapped it about 10 minutes sooner.
I actually do see some fog way in the background.