Horizon(tal) IX
This is a contribution to my horizontal series but taken a few days ago when there was a strip of light over the Olympic Mountains.
The main difference here is that the rail was angled away from me slightly, and the horizontal clouds.
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Canon EOS 5D MkII, Canon 50mm/f1.4 lens, ISO200, f-18, 1/80th Processed in Lightroom 4 and Topaz B&WEffects.
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burnt embers 
The rail almost, but not quite, divides the picture in two. In fact at first sight I thought it was just a dark band in the landscape. Actually it serves to emphasize what is directly above it – that fantastic streak of light over the mountains. Beautiful.
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Thank you Andy – I tried to line up the top of the rail exactly with the horizon, though its slight angle compared to the horizon meant it was not possible to get a perfect alignment. I like the idea of substituting a horizon, and I agree it really set of the mountains nicely – like a shelf or something for them to sit on. I will be playing with this idea more as I find good railings in the right kinds of places.
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Love the rail! In fact, I didn’t realize it was a rail at first. 🙂
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Hey David, that warms my heart. I like how the rail subs in for the horizon, and does a pretty good job of it sometimes.
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I have actually gone back and reedited a post photo after it was posted!!!
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Me too, many times. But I was feeling a bit off last night, and had to go to bed and left it. Now, maybe the time has come to fix it eh? A nice break from setting up accounting records and developing a website for my new existence back in the private sector.
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Oh, I like this a lot. The rail makes a perfect horizon.
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Thank you Ken! The slight angle of the rail is opposite to the slight angle of the far edge of the Strait from this view point, which bothers me a little bit. Other than than that, I think it is very complementary.
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That angle doesn’t bother me at all. The one element that is inconsistent with the overall harmony is the black line at the bottom right of the frame. I don’t know what it is but it might be a better composition with out it. I hate to nitpick.
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Hi Ken – that is not nitpicking at all. I forgot to take it out, but had planned to. I cloned away a seagull that was in the wrong place, and more like a speck, and then exported. Only after the post was all ready did I notice that I had left the kelp in. Sigh.
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Ok, it’s fixed. Thanks for the reminder!
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