color landscapes - high sierra Lodgepoles - Kings Canyon

If I had been one foot to the right, I could have avoided the merger at

the top edge of the photo that occurs between the large tree trunk on

the left and the distant one behind it. What do you think?

The merger doesn't bother me. (If you mean that w/o the merger, there would have been more of a sense of upward lines exclamating off the page, then I see what you mean. But I wouldn't have noticed it.) I like the active composition. I get such a feeling of nature being so alive! Pretty but also interesting.

I like the merger. It gives a nice assymetric compliment to the white snow in the foreground and creates an interesting perspective.

Really like this area and your photos are very good. Picking one of yours as the 'best', I like this one. The tree trunks add color. The spring flowers in the forground, and of course the alpine lake. I've hiked the eastern sierras, but just can't get enough.

I don't find the merging objectionable. For me, the details in the rest of the image are far more enticing. You could have said the same thing about a number of other trees in the background although changing these would take moving your position a lot more than a foot.

Some how this looks more like a painting than a photograph.

gerald,

 

thank you for this comment. when someone says that it looks more like a painting than a photograph, then i feel like somehow, the photograph has succeded.

And you did succeed for sure, what a fantastic place and photograph