Aerial View
If you look carefully, from a thousand feet above you can see a car or two moving along this straight stretch of mountain road that cuts through a dense autumn forest of dark pines and red-brown oaks. The green of grasses not yet faded to winter beige peeks out from under the canopy.
Okay. I confess. This is a picture of an oak leaf taken about a week ago, from about an inch off its parti-colored surface. And my first impression on viewing this image was just what I tried to get you to see in it.
I had planned on doing a series of leaf close-ups but the dreary weather unrelenting for the past week has nipped those plans, possibly for the year. Yesterday this same oak tree that contributed this gaudy specimen was drab and colorless, black spots on a dark matte brown backdrop.
Comments
Fred:
It's nice to find someone who has the same taste in leaves. I never get tired of these leafy close-ups:
http://www.whereproject.org/image/tid/1
Posted by: Tim | October 25, 2004 10:52 AM
It's an impressive picture Fred. I was watching Sunday Morning, a regular Sunday morning news program and they featured in one segment, this photographer who only recently finished this project whereby he would carry a ladder around everywhere he went, just in case he came upon an interesting looking tree. He'd climb the ladder, pick a few leaves, take them back to his studio, set them up against a black background and take pictures of them using only the natural light coming into his studio through skylights and large windows. A local art exhibitor featured him in a recent display of photos. His pictures were blown up very large and nicely framed. It was an impressive exhibit and they say, he made a few dollars from his efforts. Your picture was equal to his, only smaller. That new camera has added much to your potential. Good work!
Posted by: Clarence | October 26, 2004 2:40 AM
What a lovely idea for a post. This was brilliant! Ok, I'm hooked.
Posted by: Lioness | October 29, 2004 5:21 PM