Black Elms, Autumn

I was trying for an innovative angle--does it work?

You certainly succeeded, it's a wonderful image

Nice colours and simple arched composition.

I like the way everything is in focus, the bark and the leaves. This lets us appreciate -in the same warm hues- the different textures of the two, and the recurrent fractal nature they share, so to say.

 

The arch formed by the trunk and the main branch is interesting, like a projectile going up from the ground and following a parabola down. In this respect, all other down-pointing branches help this illusion.

 

If you were to flip it Left/Right, you might enhance the effect, since this is the intuitive direction in which many of us educated with latin alphabets would read motion.

Pawel and Arthur, thanks for your nice comments--much appreciated.

 

Dr. Mele, thanks for your lucid commentary on this photo. I tried flipping this vertically and it didn't work at all. I'm go to try flipping this so flows from left to right--I should have thought of that!

 

By the way, I'd never considered the fractal nature of this, but now when I look at this I'm going to see it in another way.

This works for me. I particularly like Autumn colour against a vivid blue sky, I wonder whether taking the shot at a different time of day would have avoided the dark shadows.