Transition

[aprilS]

And a larger view.

[eob]

I see a new approach in your photography, April. As much as I enjoyed your still life (food) images - for purely aesthetic reasons, I think this is a more interesting chapter of your creativity, because it contains something more: a symbolism.

I presume that this is a composite, but it is not obvious enough to complain about. I think that composites are as legitimate - and often much more interesting visually - as diptychs or triptychs. In my eyes, this image symbolizes the autumn's changes in colors, weather and mood. The feeling is quite well represented.

[aprilS]

Thank you very much, eob.

This was actually a single-frame capture before sunrise on an overcast day, at 1/3s panning.

I am so glad the feeling of that autumn morning comes across for you.

[Ted Byrne]

I wish that I could have imagined this. Damn, it is exceptional. I want it on my wall all winter long. It combines the requiem for the fall with the glory of winter's dance. Keep this up and I may stop imaging. But not stop enjoying even what, or especially what, I can't imagine.

Sweet....

[habakuk]

Falling skies. Or the earth reaching skywards? Northern light, dreams and a strange combination of motionless cool blue tranquility and dynamic movment. The glow introduces a quality of ghostlyness, the said association to dreams. But those aspects alone wouldn't do all this shot does for me. So I dig deeper... look at the composition! The way the vertical elements of the stems really give a foundation for the scene, the way that gives the scene a center weight, being nicely distributed in the middle of the picture! The way the lights at the bottom of the scene are repeated above the center line is great.

cheers
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[aprilS]

I just realized, Ted and Roland, that I never thanked you for your time to view and comments! They are very much appreciated.

[Ted Byrne]

Something I only just realized as I reviewed this image. We can no longer execute double exposures! Modern digital cameras can't do that. Oh of course we have all sorts of layering ability in PS.. but at the point of sale ... so to speak... we can no longer create the ghostly immediacy of double exposure. Hmmmm... I wonder if I have ever missed that technique even though it was great fun to do with film.

[Theo]

I love this picture it took me a long time to comment but i just kept coming back but wasn't sure what to say. So many levels the red of the trees coming forward while the blue retreats, the way the trees look like a big kiss (the last kiss of fall) and the upper half of the blue has the shadow of the sunken eye's of winter still in the distance but coming. I am defantly going to play with this treatment in the future thanks for sharing april.

[aprilS]

I am defantly going to play with this treatment in the future thanks for sharing april.

Thank you for your comments, Theo, and...have fun!

[aprilS]

Something I only just realized as I reviewed this image. We can no longer execute double exposures! Modern digital cameras can't do that. Oh of course we have all sorts of layering ability in PS.. but at the point of sale ... so to speak... we can no longer create the ghostly immediacy of double exposure.

Oh, but using Nikon we can! That's one reason I chose it over Canon when moving up from my first digital point-and-shoot.

Have I learned to control it yet? Nah. But I did just start playing with those possibilities again, using in-camera layering of motion blurs, and it's very fun to have that potential on hand.