Large Sprouts

[bryant (Bryant Redd)]

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Image Description

I visited my family in CO this last Christmas and my Mom took me to an old nature preserve near us that I went to as a kid. I brought my camera and didn’t initially find anything that I wanted to take a picture of. We walked around and sat a bit just taking it in, and then as we were walking back I found the light hitting the tree was very striking. I got the idea for this composition and I think it turned out quite well, though maybe not my favorite photo ever. I like that it highlights some simple beauty of the seemingly uninteresting part of the country I grew up in.

Technical Details

Nikon z7ii
Iso 200
29mm
F 8
1/125s

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[Tim_Parkin]

The image gives me a feeling of the cool and dry urban desert scrub and the cold night to come. The lone trunks give me a sense of a more desolate time or of a change in climate (like the dust bowl US). I like the featured sky with the lenticlular in the right edge of the frame.

The compositional balance works well with the individual trunks leaning in different directions with enough space between them to see what is beyond. I might have cropped out the post and made multiple bracketed exposures to get some detail back in the sun.

A nice find for an urban environent and good composition.

I’m distracted by the blown out sun mostly, it breaks my sense of immersion in the picture and a little by the proximity of a path and post/trash can in the frame.

[bryant (Bryant Redd)]

Thanks for the feedback! I greatly appreciate it. I cropped the image to hide that post and I think I like it a lot more that way as well. Wish i could do something about the blown out sun, but that will have to be something I take care to avoid that in the future.