Those who have read my interview know that one of my Top 5 favorite pictures on DPC is charliebaker's Natural Cathedral:
In the same interview I mentioned that I had wanted to try to shoot it myself for years. Luckily this grove of poplar trees is a mere, uh, two and one-half hours away. So having nothing better to do, I took the trip out, shot pictures for 20 minutes while tresspassing, and drove home. Actually I stopped by Hood River on the way home to shoot the kiteboarders.
Personally, I like David's shot better, but I couldn't obtain the brightness of his picture because of the increased canopy of leaves (shooting in July vs. April). Oh well, I then decided to try to make it my own. We all know I have a fondness for green...
POST: Woo Hoo! I still give full credit to David. The original inspiration for a shot counts much more than the second who comes along. I'll take the blue though. :) It's a new personal best score and will likely be on my profile for a long time.
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I am just a newbie..was just wondering how the shot would look like if taken such that the middle section is unsymmetrical. Another thing that struck me was to take the shot such that the upper(i.e. the leaves and branches) and the bottom(ground) section approach infinity in a symmetrical manner. I think it would look cute..that way...Anyways I like the colors a lot..however you didn't mention the photoshop steps..
Jason, you're making me a little "green" with your gorgeous entry. I just got back from a week hiking in the Olympic National Park with our family to find you scattered across the homepage. Congrats on your two blue ribbons, in this challenge and the faceless emotion in the same week!
Congrats on your green Blue! Nice take two! I also like it more than the original, although being first counts a lot. The light and shadow play is much more interesting here. By the way, if any critique is permitted in post-voting part of comments :P, I like the bottom green much more than the top (which is a bit over-saturated IMO).
Hey on second thought, since it´s only two and a half hours away, I challenge you to make a sesonal series of this exact same shot, go there again in the fall when the fall colors are there, a winter shot then with no leaves and do anoter in april to see if you get the same colors as Charlie.
Think those three photos + this one would look great side by side, think about it dude, I know I would do it ;)
How nice that your inspiration worked out so well! excellent image! I also like the original, though the green in yours seems to give it more depth & texture ~ perhaps that's summer too, -v- spring
Excellent shot. I too admired David's shot as one of my all time favorites and yours does it justice as well. Nicely done. Hope to get there myself some day.
Congrats buddy on the new PB, too bad it didn´t count in the DPL, but I bet those 20D dudes and dudettes are sweating in their pink booties just seeing this score on the front page, muahahaha!
Congratulations for the excellent image, the blue ribbon, the new PB, and particularly for achieving your pending 2007 goal: rise your average to 7,35+ !!
Congrats on the new [green] personal best, Jason! That's quite an achievement when your top row is all 7.2+. I guess it was worth the trip after all. ;-)
I love the composition but do feel the lighting on the trees in the forefround is a bit harsh, flash maybe? Still a nice photo and lovely green canopy!
Well, this is the clear winner. Congrats on your blue! It really is fantastic in every way. I'm not sure what happened in your border...there are bits of grey here and there.
Not voting on this as I know its Jason's. Not sure why I'm allowed to vote seeing as you are my team mate in Ribbonhogs - it should be showing up in the teammates are, but isn't - Strange.
Ioially perfect..... for this rhythm challenge, and wonderful perspective here as well.
It leads one right into this wonderful avenue of trees..... very refreshing and very very good. I hope it does well.....
The way is straight, and the path is wrought fair...
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