Roots

I love how you have decided to focus on the tree and roots, instead of looking at the larger scene. I haven't read the comments above, but did you use flash to fill in the roots?

 

My only crit is I think the camera could have been lifted a little to lose some of the foreground water (I think it takes up too much of the frame), and the avoid clipping the tree in the background.

 

Nevertheless, it's a shot I wish I had thought of taking myself.

 

Pete

Hi Pete,

 

Thanks for dropping by. I didn't use flash, it's a blend of two copies of the same image processed about one stop apart. I have a 'thing' about underwater details so they just have to be included at any cost to the overall composition!

 

All the best

 

Simon

stunning colors!

exelent tree, nice composition, i love the first plan with thoe little color rocks

Excellent!

As always Simon excellent exposure, composition, and oh such fine details!

An extraordinary eye as well as great attention to the detail of the landscape you pass through, producing an image so many of us would have missed, I hope I don't start walking into things looking at my feet.

Of dreams . . . ahhh such peace! - the colours, detail in foreground and satiny background so beautifully contrasted.

Beautiful photo!!!

If I could complain, I would worry that the tree in the background is cut off. However, if I was shooting the photo, I'd be cursing the heavens for even putting it there (although it does help put things into scale...) I might even suggest a crop to just over the top of the mountain(?) in the top right of the frame as to enhance the singularity of the subject. None the less, this is a fantastic image, the texture of the moss and the submerged rocks in the foreground are my favorite parts, and the palette is nice as well.