Frosty Morning Fall
Object lesson – don’t blog in a hurry. I hit publish instead of preview on this one, so you are all getting it 12 hours early – enjoy. It is not as polished as I might have made it by coming back later, and perhaps I will still do that.
I passed through Beacon Hill Park yesterday morning (well, today since I published early) while the sun was still very low and the grass covered with a heavy frost and patches of low lying fog. I only had a few minutes, and it has been a busy day, but here are some pictures from that visit. There might be some things that could be done to make them better, but no opportunity to do so – the only tweak is a very slight boost to saturation on a couple of shots and 180 degree rotation of the last image.
Beacon Hill Park would be welcomed in any city. It is very large, has extensive ocean frontage and sufficient room for some playing fields and even a cricket field. A hundred years ago it had a race track, in an area now conserving native plant species. It is located between where I live and downtown so I pass through it frequently. This means I will be posting more pictures from here in the future, probably many more.
What I like about the following picture is the converging line of shadows and tree trunks. If only there was something a bit more interesting at the apex that the spindly branch.
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All nice, but I like the first one best, too.
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hi danita – thank you for your comment and for browsing backwards in my blog. It seems strange to launch these posts and then have them fall out of sight, seemingly never to be looked at again.
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They are all beautiful photos, but that first one really stood out for me. Everything about it is wonderful. 🙂
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Hi Robin – what an endorsement! Smiling.
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I’m in love with the first photo!! The leaning tree is marvelous 🙂
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For me the second stands out, because the contrast between the tree trunks and the morning mist pull me further into the image. Reminds me of a Jane Austin scene where I expect a horseback rider to appear from the deep right. I might have taken the house and tree on extreme right out. Then it becomes more mysterious, Sally
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Hi Sally, I put a crop somewhat as you suggest into the gallery if you want to look, or through this link. I think I prefer the original, but this works too. And BTW, thanks for commenting 🙂
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I like the first one, but fora reason i don’t think has been mentioned–that marvelous leaning tree. My eye just zooms to that beauty Then it goes along those wonderful strong branches and gets to the other tree tops and travels from there. I loved that ride! 🙂 I like the third one too with the diagonal trunk on the left; the wonderful color of the leaves, and then the diagonal sky space that mimics the trunk. And then the more bare set of branches. It’s kind of like layers in a way. Very interesting and I love that. 🙂
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Hi Katie – you and I are seeing just the same things in these pictures – what a relief that someone else not only sees it, but approves :). That leaning trunk, silhouetted as a dominant anchor of sorts caught my eye from quite a distance and pulled me in to photograph it. I took several pictures – another that is closer and which I like nearly as much. The leaves photo I like for all the same reasons as you, but it did not work as well from the direction I took it so I rotated it. I originally loaded the other view before deciding to change it, and I see that it is still in the gallery. If you are interested, you can click on the leafs image and it will take you to the gallery where the other image can then be seen and enlarged by clicking on it (explanation is not really for you, I am sure you know how to get around, but some of my readers are as new to WP as I am). It would be interesting to hear whether you (and others) agree that the rotation improved the balance.
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Ah, we have a similar eye! Wonderful! I love diagonals and dramatic weird things, like that tree, which is just so magnificent. Please do share the other photos with that tree. Pretty please. 🙂
As to the other photo. I agree, I looked at the other photo, and my eye is just puzzled by it, and not in a good way. 🙂 it just looks un-natural, which I usually don’t mind, but I just like the way you flipped it. It just feels better to my eye, and I can look at everything and enjoy the different parts to the photo.
Thanks for sharing the photos! 🙂
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OK Katie – since you asked so nicely. Its in the gallery now, or click on this link. Hope you like it.
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agree with the consensus..the first one is the best of the lot. there is a lot of freshness to it, could be the mild dew on the grass evident in the shadows or if this photo is taken slightly earlier in the day than the others
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Thanks for coming by abu zar – I appreciate your comments. The photos were taken within 5 minutes of each other, maybe less. I was very rushed. There wasy quite a heavy frost (for around here) on the grass, but it was uneven as some of the trees have enough canopy left to discourage frost, and the sun was doing its job by then too.
BTW, I have been admiring your water and rock pictures – they are the kinds of pictures that make me try harder.
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Lovely photos, especially the first. I like the sunlit fog – it dramatizes everything else. I look forward to more.
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Thank you Barbara. I might well have dropped one of the other images, if I had had the chance to preview them all together before hitting that publish button. The first one is my favourite too – I usually lead with the one I like the best.
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Magnificant lighting and colors – great images!!
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Thanks Jim – it was great light. There was scene I saw after this that I wish I could have stopped for, but by then I was late. Maybe tomorrow will be similar conditions and I can get there and try to get a decent picture. Frustrating when that happens.
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