Glacial Carving

Comments are welcome. Crawford Notch in NH. "U" shaped valley provided

courtesy of the last ice age. Colors provided by the coming of Winter.

Could be a bit larger. My middle-aged eyes convert it into 3 areas divided by a white stripe. That's not a bad thing for judging composition, but it does drain any emotional content out of it.

One of your more attractive thumbnails pulled me up for a comment. Not in the least because we have spoken about capturing a deciduous moment (as opposed to a decisive moment) in the past, i.e.:

John Rhodebeck/member-status-icons/patron-small.gif, May 16, 2004; 11:38 A.M.

I think that's a really bad pun. Why didn't I come up with it first! :)

Apart from the obvious autumn colours, your image reminded me to dig one out that I took last year. The way that the road leads our eyes to the top of the image and into the light is quite good, imo. But obviously, having done this myself on at least one ocassion, means that I have a biased opinion. Biased towards this kind of composition. The only thing that I might have done, is to "remove" the presence of another road/track in the lower right of this image.

That's a neat glaciated valley. We can go to 6684 ft. in western North Carolina, by contrast, and never even get to the tree line, much less find evidence of past glaciation.

Glen and Peter, thank you for commenting. Glen I agree that the upload is too small. Unfortunately Photo.net is rejecting any larger postings from my computer right now. May be that I have recently switched to photoshop cs or that this started from a raw file.

 

Peter, I almost reused my deciduous pun, but was really more interested in the dramatic "U" shape of this valley. I hopefully have some shots that do a better job of emphasizing the "U". My photographic forays have been infrequent recently and, as you point out with the second set of tracks that run in and out of the frame, my compositional eye seems to be suffering from lack of use. I took this shortly after you pointed me in the direction of the article on blending, so I took quite a few shots with the idea of blending to make a better overall exposure by combining the shots. I hope to make time to try that soon and will post the result. Enjoy your Spring.

 

Lannie, you commented while I was writing this. Thank you for your comment. This photo was taken from 2900 feet and below tree line, but from a cliff that gave this great view of the valley. To my left and somewhat behind me as I shot this is Mt. Washington which is above tree line. Others have said of New Hampshire that it is the most beautiful scenery from which you never have a view. Sometimes you just have to work for it a little.

What a fantastic view. I like the line entering from the side--a little cluttery in the bottom left corner, but I'm sure you had no options.

Hey David, Thanks for stopping by. I may have a view without the clutter, but I left the edge of the cliff in most of my shots for two reasons: 1) I like the anchor to give a sense a height and some scale and 2) I am scared to death of heights and this cliff was 300 feet or more straight down and I wasn't getting any closer to the edge than I already was.