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A small fire on the other side of the lake, combined with some low

clouds. Almost didn't shoot this since the sun was dead on.

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You should give this to conservationalists - really gets the message home. sad but a great shot.

Thanks for the comments. Just a little additional info on the area. The foreground spends much of the year under water. There is a dam just off to the right a ways. These trees were cleared to allow recreational use of the lake. In summer time it's a big boating and fishing area. The fire is probably a controlled burn or else related to logging. There is heavy logging activity in this, and in most of western Oregon. A long time ago, salmon and steelhead ran up this river (the Santiam) to spawn. They don't make it past the dam now, and logging near the coast has greatly reduced their numbers. Things don't look too good at the moment for these fish, or the forests. Makes me very sad too. It's such a beautiful part of the world.

Hey there,

Even though it is smoke,the top half is really neat looking. The picture as a whole is a good testament to the alterations made to the land. Nice job.

Hey Leann...I shot it with my 4x5 as well! Just being a showoff :)

 

Unfortunately I managed to vignette the top portion of all four sheets of fp4. One may be useable. Thing is, I'm too cheap for a lens hood/bellows for that 4x5 and just hold my hand or a dark slide up to block the sun. Never had a problem with this technique before, but today I managed to do in the sky and the top of the mountains on my great big negatives. Bummer...

 

Teach me to show off with crazy old fashioned gear!

Hi there, Mr. Anderson :)

This image is great - it has some kind of magic feel to it - cut down trees, misty horison, and mountains... almost like in the LOTR.. :) Great shot!

MacGregor, From this photo, I can imagine how beautiful this place once was. From the thumbnail, I thought Oh...a nice landscape with some fog. Upon opening and studying it, the clearcutting and abuse the area has endured became apparent-beautiful and horrible all at the same time. Technically, I can imagine the challenge this was to shoot. That's some tough light to deal with. You handled it well. My only thought for improvement is that the image seems to have a slight clockwise tilt. It could just be to topography fooling my eye.

Thanks for the comments! I'm glad the juxtaposition of beautiful and damaged worked. I don't often have any message in my photos, but those thoughts were going through my mind with this one.

 

VIP, half of Oregon looks like something out of Tolkien. That's why I love it so much.

 

Laurie, you may be correct on the horizon tilt. You see, my right leg is about an inch shorter than the left. I just prop up my monitor on the right side with a couple matchbooks and it looks ok. Only kidding. I didn't see that but now that you mention it, I think you are right. If you look at the b/w version it is probably very close to accurate. That large format camera has a spirit level which I remembered to check this time. The negative was scanned while seated in a pretty tight fitting carrier, which was aligned to the edge of the scanner. So that version is probably more accurate. Nothing a little photoshop can't fix. Great catch.

 

Mac

Its fantastic.