Needle Gutter
Pine needles along the curb edge, causing small dams and tiny reservoirs. This is another in my yellow series that I took during a walk in the rain last weekend. This curb also has some faint foot prints.
There were a lot of these little dams, some of the them without a trace of yellow, one of the mostly green from freshly fallen leaves that had not changed colour. But, I liked the pine needles the best, the way they arrange themselves into little mats and log jams.
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Canon 5Dii, Canon 100mm f2.8 macro lens, ISO200, f 2.8, 3 brackets +/- 1.0 E.V.
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Fabulous job here, Ehpem! For some reason I have a thing about natural elements like the leaves and pine needles here that are found half-submerged in a water source. The edge where the artifact starts to become submerged sometimes forms the most interesting little effects that produce delicate shadows. I see a few instances of this here, and it truly makes the pictures captivating.
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That is an interesting observation about that little transition zone, or threshold might be a good word for it. I have just been struggling with showing it properly in a picture of a rotting salmon lying half in half out of Goldstream River. I don’t think I captured it properly. But I do know what you mean (my storm drain pictures would fit into this category too, not that I think of it).
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That’s it, Ehpem, exactly! You’re described it quite well and I am so glad to see that I’m not entirely mad seeing things that only matter to me. 🙂
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That sounds like a definition of many an artist – going mad seeing things that only matter to them.
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This would explain quite a bit, really… LOL
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I love these photos ! I would have passed by these needles and wouldn’t even thought to photograph them. You have an eye !
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Thanks! I pass them by all the time too. I find I look differently when carrying a camera. And in fact since all my lenses are primes, I look differently depending on which lens is on the camera. I frequently am out with the 24mm, and the 50mm. But it is uncommon for me to be out with the 100mm macro mounted on the camera. I notice that I look at things quite a bit more closely – my looking narrows a lot with a lens like this.
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Nature’s compositions. Well seen by you.
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That’s just what they are Andy. I love finding these kinds of things. Often they are at a macro scale so looking for them requires slowing down a bit, which also is good.
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Since I have 8 pine trees in my yard, I love to see the pine needles played like this. They look well with the leaves near the gutter, too. But it reminds me that i have to sweep the gutter in front of my house, if it ever stops raining.
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Sounds like you still have Sandy’s effects falling from the sky. Better than snow, in my opinion. It has been raining much of the time for a couple of weeks around here, but it is November and that is normal. I saw the street sweeping machine out the other day, dealing with these needles and leaves, so their nice natural patterns are probably all gone.
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