oak trees

Nice mood shot.

I love these fog shots which I always find difficult to achieve,so I'll save this one in my Favorites.Impressive Oaks and just a nice tint to this excellent image.

Meilleures salutations-Laurent

Jim, thank you for your kind comment!

Laurent,

I found it helps when somebody, 100 years earlier, planted those trees for visual impact. These images are all taken in Goodwin Park, now a rather dilapidated city-owned golf course, but the park was designed during Hartford's glory days by one of the foremost landscape designers: Frederick Law Olmsted. He carefully planned his trees so they would give the illusion of a picturesque "natural" landscape within the city. Even on a nice day the park is still impressive (though you gotta watch out for incoming golf balls), on a foggy day, when the mist hides much of the parks ugliness you can benefit from some good design that happened over 100 years earlier. The main advantage, in my opinion, is that you have the space to step back, which allows you to compress the trees with a long focal length and strengthen their disappearance in the mist, and that the trees have been placed exactly for that purpose. It also helps that the trees have reached maturity and have been somewhat neglected by the city, giving you that romantic aura of decay, which makes everything look  much older.

Thanks for your comments - I really appreciate them!

Christoph

Beautiful shot...very nice composition and tones!

Dick

A beautiful result with very nice lighting, Christoph!

Thank you Ruud and Dick. I appreciate your comments.

Yes, a very nice work!