Verticals, Curves, & Colours

I really like this shot...Love the backlighting and fall-like feel to it. The combinations of greens and yellows and browns work very well together...Nicely done.

Keith, Your observations are exactly the elements that attracted me to this scene; 'a fall like feel'. Thanks for stopping by. Best, LM.

The gradual light and colors from the darker in the f/g till the brighter on the upper part, are making it appealling to me, Len.The small area of light blue, hints continuation of the forest.

I love the general colors and partition of the trees in the scene.

 

Greeting, Pnina

Pnina, The blue area in the background is a pond. I hadn't thought about it giving a sense of continuation to the forest but you are right. Thanks for pointing that out. Gotta love this country for it's variety of the seasons. Best, LM.

Spotted on a 2005 fall field trip to Mono Cliffs Conservation Area,

a few miles north west of Toronto, Ontario. Your thoughts\comments

will be gratefully received. Best, LM.

Everytime I try to capture a scene like this in the woods, I fail miserably. This one is spot on. I love it.

Rob, Thanks for stopping by with your two bits worth. Checked out your portfolio and I don't see the 'miserable failures' you refer to :-) Best, LM.

Len, this is very nice. I was just thinking that mid-October is the height of the color in the Canadian zone of flora in the Appalachians of North Carolina, just west and northwest of me. (I'm forty miles northeast of Charlotte but used to live in Greenville, SC, even closer to the mountains.) In the summer we drive from the western Carolinas "up into Canada" in just an hour or two by going up another twenty-five hundred feet or more. Then we don't want to come back down into the steambath of the Southeast again.

 

This reminds me of the freshness of the southern highlands for that reason--that and the Canadian hemlocks, which also grow here in the mountains. I might get up there later today. . . .

 

--Lannie

Lannie, Thanks for the comment and the geography lesson:-) I used to vacation in Myrtle Beach and if I ever get down that way again perhaps you could guide me on a field trip of one or more of your favourite haunts. If you ever get up my way (Barrie, about 60 miles north of Toronto) give me a heads-up & I'll arrange a similar event for you. Be kind to me & come up when the weather is decent. I hate the freezing cold but would make an exception for you. I have a few favourite locations within easy drive of the local (& warm) coffee shops. :-) Best, LM.

Thanks, Len. I think that I was last in Ontario in 1954, while we were living in northern Ohio, but it would be nice to visit again.

 

As for geography, it is really quite dramatic in the middle of summer to go into the mountains of western NC, which are the highest east of the Black Hills in South Dakota. Mount Pisgah, just west of Asheville, picked up five feet of snow in one day in May, 1992, and so these mountains merit some respect, even though they are gentle-looking.

 

--Lannie