morning frost

please view larger, thank you!

Wonderful capture with beautiful light and tones! Looks like a painting. 6/7a. Best regards, Linh Dinh

great find. excellent composition and light.

Another of your beautiful winter landscape. Beautiful light. Regards, Jean-Marc

Great shot Richard, the exposure is right-on.

Nicely composed.

This is really lovely, thanks for posting it!

Thank you, Linh, Mary, Jean-Marc, Jim, Kathy and Kent! This is another view of my favorite local creek.

 

Best regards,

 

Dick

I love the golden tone of the water, warm regards!

Wonderful image. Nicely exposed and composed. I especially like the color reflected in the water.

Very painterly Richard. I would like to see a push of the white point to reveal some specular highlights, but so minor a critique. This as well as many of your others has an HDR appearance. They usually look better at full resolution, but appear flat at web res. Very good work!

Thank you very much, Ovidiu, William and Mark!

 

Mark, the monitor seems to make a huge difference. I post process my images on a 24 inch iMac with Aperture. I check everything in a full-screen view before I convert the NEF image to JPEG for posting. These always have a different look on my Toshiba laptop and my Acer computer at work. I appreciate your kind comment. Oh, the snow is such a delicate balance in these images. I think that if I would have taken this about 15 or 20 minutes later it would have had a completely different look.

 

Best regards,

 

Dick

Wonderful light and tones -- the epitome of winter calm.

 

Regarding Mark's observation, I think that some images simply (and naturally) lack a range of tones and are therefore somewhat "flat." For this image, I think it should be somewhat flat; I'd hate to see processing that greatly accentuated the color and presence of the shrubs and colors in the water (although that would be possible). To my eye, this particular image looks entirely natural, and it's what the eye would have seen. I can appreciate Mark's concern; I usually see it in the opposite direction, however, in which a place that has great variation in depth of tones has been rendered uniformly flat, with the depth of tones gone.

Your very kind words mean a lot to me, Stephen!

 

Thank you!

 

Dick

Beautiful capture, Richard. I love the "white on white".

Thank you very much, Liz! This creek is something that most everyone passes daily without a thought. Beauty lurks in the most unassuming places!

 

Best regards,

 

Dick