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Wet pine

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Posted by Kendall Hetrick on July 6, 2010 at 8:17 AM
Wet pine
We are back to seeing a lot of raindrops. Well we had a week of dry weather. Got some weeds out of the garden, yards mowed again then 2.7" of rain yeaterday and more for today. Shot this a couple weeks ago while chasing some birds in the park.
Sigma 50-500 @ 1000mm eq f8 1/125 ISO 800
Posted by Ken Bachofer on July 6, 2010 at 4:33 PM
Nicely done. I really like the various greens of the old and new needles against the nicely mottled OoF green background. Good use of DoF. I assume you want C&C so ... I would like to see the older female cones less centered - maybe moved slightly lower-left to allow the male strobili clusters at the top and right to be fully included. Just my 2 cents.
Posted by Brian Vance on July 7, 2010 at 12:17 PM
I like this image a lot. The immature cones make this one very compelling, and the composition is very nice.
Posted by Kerry Leibowitz on July 7, 2010 at 2:15 PM
I'm with Brian; I think this is excellent. Strong composition, love the repetition of the water drop counterpoint and the BG is perfect. I think a slight crop from the bottom would do the image no harm but that's so minor I'm not sure I'd even bother. Very, very nicely done, Kendall.