Fallen

Part of a series of images from the Cheltenham Badlands near Toronto,

Ontario. All comments on either the series or this image are greatly

appreciated.

 

Thanks,

 

Ian

Wow, very surreal. Great eye, congratulations.

Another Superb shot Ian. In fact I pretty much like the entire series. You really make me want to go there sooner than later.

May be we should plan to meet up sometime after I come back from my trip...so maybe sometime in Nov?

I would be more than happy to meet up with you Younes. Anytime. Feel free to drop me a line if you're in Toronto. I'm a grad student and will probably have classes Mondays and Fridays this coming year. The rest of my schedule is fairly pliable.

 

I'm envious of your trip out west. I really want to see the Olympic coastline, the Palouse, and the Northern Cal. redwoods. I have a fond dream of having time or money to drive cross-country one of these summers.

This is an impressively creative landscape. Landscape, right??!! Surrealism was mentioned and appropriately so. Perspective anyone? This image really comes to me in waves and layers. The small tree echoing the big, the redness, the redness, the seemingly endlessly long dead branch. The starkness of the (almost) lone tree against a still sky (becoming a signature of yours?). I feel a bit swallowed up in this image. That's great.

Thanks Fred. I was so thrilled when I came upon the log lying where it was. This is my personal favourite of this series. I love the black, dark, redness. I almost feel it is sanguine.

 

If you want to take my word for it, the image is even nicer when viewed much larger and the details in the log-end and in the dust (and traces of footprints) are more visible.

What a spectacular landscape!

Perfect composition.The fallen tree leeds me deep into the picture.The small tree to the left makes the photo even moore interesting.

Best regards // Carola

I had no idea there were badlands in Ontario. Great series!

 

Cheers,

Aaron

Aaron, thanks. This is certainly a small patch (about a football field in size). It is along part of the escarpment and is composed of bentonite clays that were uplifted and then worn away by water during the last glaciation (I hope I have this correct).