This January, I took a series of images at this location. I really like the emotions these little truncated stumps can bring to the surface. They can fool you into thinking they’re alive.
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What do you feel, if anything?
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I think it was a 4 image focus stack, 5D Mk4, Sigma 100-400 @ 129mm, f/8, 1/160s
I really like this and it is perfect for the approaching Halloween. It has a most haunting look to it. Processing looks spot on and quite surreal. Excellent image.
Definitely made me click the thumbnail. Very intriguing image; they do seem alive, or resting at least! I like how the trees on the edges ‘embrace’ the scene in the middle.
Gary, your view of these “things” would make a great intro to a horror movie. They totally look like they’d walk around as soon as you turn your back. The fading into grey with the far treeline adds well to the scene. I see eyes and a mouth inside the one on the right…
I like the framing of this image a bit more than your previous post. First because it has a bit more depth from the more prominently featured stump in the foreground. I also like how the background trees frame the overall scene and places less emphasis on the sky.
Ooooohhhhh, very cool, very unique. Certainly a most uneasy mood about this - going along with some other comments. I’m wondering if a slight sepia treatment might just even make this seem ancient…
This is beautiful. After reading the other comments I had to take a look at the other photo you took of this place as well.
I don’t think one is better than the other, both very good and similar looking but at the same time very different.
Can’t think of anything I would change, maybe the amount of grey, but that might also be the thing that makes this photo.
Gary, a wonderful finished image throughout. A salute goes out to you for finding this unique subject in the field as a photographic opportunity. Not everyone would see this scene as the gem it really is. As already stated it provides an eerie feeling both in subject and the final processing…well done…
