black and white Yosemite #2

My favourite of your B&W series.  No, my favourite of your entire postings.  I favour it mainly for the composition; the darker trees framed partially by the lighter rock face in the background and the stone stream bed in the foreground.  And no bright sky area to steal the viewer's attention.  Not intending to pee on anyone's cornflakes here as artistic tastes do differ but mine call for a bit more contrast, snap, if you will.  Your entire Yosemite series comes across like that.  If your intention was to produce a series of lower contrast images, you've succeeded, and I respect that.  Though this one is a favourite, you have many more images that are snapping at it's heels.  Best, LM.

I'm flattered, Len. I can't say I was necessarily going for a really low contrast shot (some of them I do) - that effect on this particular image was partially due to my inability in using then-new-to-me image editing software and negative scanners and using a poor monitor. The negative and wet print produces a far more engaging image, IMO, but that would be a bit difficult to bring to a computer screen. Perhaps one day when I own a scanner again (I use my DSLR and macro lens for the odd negative I want to put online now) I'll go back and redo this and resubmit it. I do like low contrast sometimes, but I do not like "gray blob"...and I think there is a bit of that in these Yosemite pictures.

It was such a striking moment finding this view on that hike...something I should never forget.