Posted November 5th, 2011

Apparition in the Naked Forest

Winter has firmly established itself ... the rich hues of autumn are a distant memory, replaced by the near monochrome of this season. The leafless white branches and trunks of this stand of aspens stand out graphically against a dark backdrop of spruce at the base of a hillside meadow where the grasses still stand tall above the beginning snow pack. I abstracted this image by tilting the camera upward during a long exposure. You can never be sure exactly what you will get with this technique so you make lots of exposures and each one is different. I like the flow of lines and textures that developed in this one and the way it unites the grasses and the branches. And I am fascinated by an illusion that appears to me in the background, though perhaps it is just a figment of my individual imagination ... What do you see?
Pentax K-5, SMC Pentax DA* 60-250mm f/4 ED [IF] SDM @ 98mm, 1.5s @ f/11