Pebble Beach, Marathon

The "pebbles" on the beach range in size from grapefruits to bowling balls.

Driftwood catches the final light of the day. Thanks for looking.

Hi Jeff, I like this alot.

All The Best

Gary

Jeff,  I really like the way the stones dominate the image.  Their size, angle, and vertical presentation really work here with excellent light.  I this looks like a Lake Superior beach.  Is it that part of Ontario?  My compliments!  Larry

Thanks Gary, José, & Larry.  Yes, Larry, this location is about 300km east of Thunder Bay and 200km west of Wawa, on the north shore of Lake Superior.  Colorful rocks are polished ultra-smooth by pounding waves and shifting ice.  Regards, Jeff 

i very much like layered photography

Splendid work! Pebbles making a wonderful foreground, trunks leading to the background, nice sky... everything is here to make a great image.

Best regards,

Alain

Pretty scene with a good DOF. At first I wasn't sure of the smoothness of the driftwood. But, I've seen wood polished this smoothly by the water

Thanks, Stephanie and Ernest.  

Thanks for your comments again, Alain.  Always appreciated.

Ken, thanks for your observations and comment.  The rocks were as smooth as egg shells and these two bits of driftwood were highly polished and so complementary.

Regards, Jeff

Damn jet trails ;-) I think you could crop out a lot of the sky and not lose a thing. The rocks make the image. Can you brighten the background mountain some?

Hi Dave,  I appreciate your comments.  The contrails are a bit tough to edit on this one, so understand your point about cutting most of the sky.  And I agree about brightening the hill.  I tend not to spend much time in post-work but I realize that, one day, I need to revisit many of my images for tweaking.  Regards, Jeff

I think the amount of sky you've included creates a perfect balance.  I don't mind the contrails personally.  I do agree with Dave about lightening the distance hill.  But it's an impressive image.  Do you use hyper focal distance when you're composing?  The DOF is quite good!

Hi Christal, thanks for commenting.  Yes, I try to improve DOF by focusing roughly 1/3 in and trying to remember hyper focal distancing at various f-stops.  But it doesn't always work.  Angles and my mind sometimes fail me!  I thought the contrails were OK too as the driftwood mimicked them, sort of.    

Lovely clarity and subtle tones, excellent foreground interest.

Beautifully and expertly captured.  I am thinking that the stones should be neutral gray or have a tinge of 'warmth'. Here they are mostly colored with a tinge of blue. Now, I was not there and this could have been the way the scene existed.  This is only a question of color balance and it is a minor consideration on an enjoyable image. 

PS and afterthought:  The foreground driftwood has the color I would expect in this scene so the rocks must be what you saw. 

Thanks Tony.  Interesting that you chose to comment on this image: the editors of Outdoor Photography Canada nearly put this on the cover of Issue #38 rather than Cave Point Sunset.  I think the blue tinge on the rocks makes sense because the blue sky acted as a giant reflector.  Jeff