A Leaf in the Stream

Sorry about the delay acknowledging your comment--- slipped through the cracks of my faulty attention span :)

Thanks for the comment. I have always considered your images a prime example of telling a story in a different way so I am flattered by your comment.

I agree with Jeff's comments; the initial response is that of seeing mercury. The interesting thing is that the closest I ever got to that was experimenting with the Sabatier effect back in the darkroom days. That effect however would have consumed the entire image and the stillness you achieved beneath the surface would have been lost.

This is a brilliant combination of shutter-speed, polarizing filter and of course composure which resulted in a fine photograph.

Bob;

Thanks for the comment. I agree that you do have a bit of the appearance of sabatier effect in this. I took several shots on that occasion and they all have some degree of that look. The effect is the result of the quality of the bright indirect light reflecting off of wet surfaces combined with the motion effect.

I fooled around with solarization effect back in my darkroom day. I did a number of prints with selective solarization with some portions of the print masked off with rubylith film.

There is a scan of an old print in my scanned 'film and silver prints' folder entitled " Lunacy" which was partially solarized, with the foreground masked.