River of Gold

A little warm color for a change. Comments and rates are invited. Thanks.

This is my favorite of the two newest of your images. I like the perspective and composition. Excellent image. Two for two Walter. - Sean

I love this picture! Well done. I like the point of view. It looks like you had to work for the point a view (climb a tree or rock). Also very insterperational. ...Peaceful...

Awesome, simply awesome. Isn't great being able to drive to a place of such beauty daily? I too am from NE Ohio, go to the metroparks as much as I can. So many great pics live there !

Thank you Gentlemen! Yes indeed Dave, I had to scramble around on top of some rather slick boulders to get this one (I'm getting too old for this). Thanks for noticing the high POV.

Sean I took your hint on the last one and really truncated the top of this. There was a lot more sky visible in the original, but again, it was just plain, washed out, and overcast. By the way, this was in the same location as the last one, about a quarter mile downstream.

Thanks for the visit Henry! The Metroparks are indeed a great asset to the community. Regards.

Beautiful image.

Amazing colors and fine detail. Wish my Mamiya RZ could visit some places like this too.

One of those subjects that has been done tens of thousands of times, but not often as well as here.

 

John

Walter the composition really works well. I would agree that your choice to crop out the sky was a good one. This reminds me of one of Danny Burks images from Indiana. You certainly have a treasure to explore. - Sean

Thank you for reminding me of how beautiful our world is. Your photography is amazing, and very inspiring. This shot is one of your best!

 

Edit: I didn't see the title of the folder this photo belongs to until after I commented. Aptly named!

Hi Walter - I'm a little concerned about your bio pic - with all the cut backs at the station - I see you have no shoe laces ...... Did you take the money I gave you for shoe laces and buy another lens? ..... Do the other executives know the degree to which you are suffering? ...... Do you have another Cuban?

 

This is the pick of the litter - glad to see you still out scrambling around - is that your shoe down there in the leaves? - you should wear laces .... (-;

Ken!...very observant of you to notice the deplorable condition of my shoe laces. But worry not, I actually traded them for yet another stogie, your donation was used to buy a brewski; after all, life does have its priorites, yes? Thanks for the visit. Regards.

Sean, even though I personally like this one a lot, you're way too kind in saying that this is reminiscent of Danny's work. I took a look at his site and his photography is truly outstanding; a lot of good information there too! Thanks again for the visit.

And thank you to Dillian for the kind words too. Regards.

Another stunning image, Walter. This just has a nice feel to the way it's cropped, with the limbs dead center, but the stream flowing down to the left.

One of my favorites from so many great portfolios. I want to be at this place next fall. Question is will I have near the talent to pull something like this off. Simply Stunning.

Another great shot.

the real talent in getting a photograph like this is to not die in the process, the rest is intelligent luck.

Kim, your visits are always welcome. I took one other exposure from this location; a vertical portrait with the tree placed over to the right side. While it retained the flowing water on the left, and included more of the tree, the large boulder on the right was lost completely. Convention would probably have said to go with that composition instead of this one, with the tree smack in the middle. But I liked the way this one came out.

And thank you Feng for the kind words. Regards.

Walter, you know I am a fan!!! Especially of this shot, Walter the perspective and the depth this creates is just amazing, great colors, sharpness is excellent, 7/7 all the way from me!!! regards, Rajeev

It becomes apparent after viewing the large size how fine the image is. It really gives you a sense of being there, smelling the damp air after the Fall rain and hearing the flowing creek. Beautiful color and perspective.

Thanks Rajeev, I appreciate your kind words. Today I ordered a 16x20 Supergloss Chromira print of this chrome from West Coast Imaging. It should look really pretty in my library!

And thank you Frank, too, for the visit and encouraging words. I agree with you absolutely that the LARGE size display is superior to the PhotoNet default. There is not only better detail but increased saturation and tonality as well. It is much closer to, but not quite the same as, my original image file. Perhaps one day we will be have a compression algorithm on this site that does not deteriorate the upload so severely. Regards.

Just wonderful Walter. The fairly central convergence of the tree boughs actually holds this together very nicely for me, and of course Velvia doing its thing is the icing on the cake. Maybe a little more detail in the black rock in the lower right would be nice, but otherwise I see little to improve on.

thank you for taking the time to stop by and take a look at my latest offering. I agree with you about the boulder, but I am going to wait and see how the first print looks. West Coast Imaging is still offering a print sale, so I will undoubtedly give them more business with this one ;0) Regards.

I think that this is one of your very best, Walt. Great work.

 

--Lannie

Thanks Lannie! Well, I just got the print today and, overall, I think it will work very nicely. A couple of points that I will need to address include the small indistinct branch in the foreground by the large boulder, and the rotation of the photograph. This was a long exposure and the wind did not help, so the small branch is a distraction and should be cloned out. The horizion is not level in this; it is not noticeable in this low rez image but it is somewhat in the 16x20 print.

With reference to Richard's kind contribution, the brightness level of the boulder is very good on the print. I have decided to leave that part alone. With the Fuji Supergloss, this print has a disitinctive three dimensional appearance that the boulder helps to achieve. Regards.

Excellent, Walter... I like this composition!