lake 2011 Autumn Tree

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Warm regards Mike!

PDE

Lovely and moody, and the LF film is wonderful. I'm assuming that the camera was level, but things seem to lean a little to the right. Could just be that my eye 'wants' the tree to be dead vertical. I also wonder what it might look like with a little of the right side cropped away.

By the title, I have a feeling we've seen this tree before.  The exposure and the mist in the background are quite nice.  For some reason, I also like the wooden  "fence line" behind the tree.  I think Les has made a good suggestion regarding a crop on the right side, although I'd prefer to pan to the left to keep the 4x5 format and to include more of the "fence" (not sure what to call those structures; usually they indicate parking spots for vehicles, but that doesn't seem to be the case here) and to place the tree a bit to the right.  I think those few elements of dark, man-made structures low to the ground in this high, sweeping vista would be quite striking, as if they are impossibly small to hold back our view of this place.