11-10-2022, 02:00 PM
Oh WOW, I am so glad that you decided to drop in and share with us the MAGNIFICENTLY created image.
It is also nice of you to tell us your secrets and the dedication and effort needed to produce such an incredibly moving, moody, interesting, composition.
If we didn't know the details, you certainly made it look easy.
I think this is a prize-winning shot and agree with Natalie, how could anyone not give this a blue ribbon? Obviously, it has to do with his "taste". It is unfortunate. I LOVE LOVE LOVE this image and would rate it as one of the best.
Dave, I am impressed with your simple composition. When I look at an image and I get an involuntary physical reaction, like a giggle, sadness, calmness, anxiety, etc., the photographer has achieved their goal. And that is what happened when I first saw your rain-speckled succulent leaves. The natural lighting is golden, the composition is perfect and the simplicity of the design makes this a calming vision. And I felt it the moment I laid eyes on this unique photo that is a fine example of your special style.
Don, ICM is not as easy as it sounds. I have spent much time trying to get something as good as you shared today. I love the blue peeking through the golden rods and the puffs of clouds that look like cotton balls. Nice job, Don. Don, did you take your trailer on your last vacation? I do not remember reading that it was fixed and ready for travel
Hey, Natalie. Yes, hurricanes in November are rare, so are the 70-degree temps that we will be experiencing outside today. So, when I finish here, I will be going out to pick up the last of the leaves and maybe even cutting the grass. Not sure how much energy I have to do all of this. But for sure, it will be the LAST time I do yard work this season.
Yesterdays's club trip to the Kirk on the Hill Presbyterian church was very nice. But even better was a trip to the Oak Hill Cemetery in Pontiac, Michigan. This old cemetery has some awesome monuments, headstones, and mausoleums. I took more photos in the hour that we were at the cemetery than the two hours that we were at the church.
Here is a little bio on the cemetery followed by a photo of a chapel that is at the entrance.
Pontiac was founded by the Pontiac Company in 1818, and the town’s first burying grounds were located on Stephen Mack’s land on the ridge east of the Clinton river (about where City Hall stands today), and in a small graveyard on the corner of Saginaw and Huron Streets. As the town expanded, a new burying ground was needed and in 1822 land was set aside by the Pontiac Company for a cemetery, church and parsonage east and north of town. In 1839 the cemetery was platted and burials began there in 1841, beginning with relocating the graves from the earlier burying grounds.
In 1825, Elizabeth Denison Forth, a freed slave and the first black woman to own land in Michigan, purchased 4 lots in Pontiac. She leased these lots to her brother, Scipio Forth, selling them in 1836 or 1837 to the village of Pontiac. Portions of this land became part of Oak Hill Cemetery. A historical marker stands on what was Ms. Forth’s land, commemorating her ownership of the property.
It is also nice of you to tell us your secrets and the dedication and effort needed to produce such an incredibly moving, moody, interesting, composition.
If we didn't know the details, you certainly made it look easy.
I think this is a prize-winning shot and agree with Natalie, how could anyone not give this a blue ribbon? Obviously, it has to do with his "taste". It is unfortunate. I LOVE LOVE LOVE this image and would rate it as one of the best.
Dave, I am impressed with your simple composition. When I look at an image and I get an involuntary physical reaction, like a giggle, sadness, calmness, anxiety, etc., the photographer has achieved their goal. And that is what happened when I first saw your rain-speckled succulent leaves. The natural lighting is golden, the composition is perfect and the simplicity of the design makes this a calming vision. And I felt it the moment I laid eyes on this unique photo that is a fine example of your special style.
Don, ICM is not as easy as it sounds. I have spent much time trying to get something as good as you shared today. I love the blue peeking through the golden rods and the puffs of clouds that look like cotton balls. Nice job, Don. Don, did you take your trailer on your last vacation? I do not remember reading that it was fixed and ready for travel
Hey, Natalie. Yes, hurricanes in November are rare, so are the 70-degree temps that we will be experiencing outside today. So, when I finish here, I will be going out to pick up the last of the leaves and maybe even cutting the grass. Not sure how much energy I have to do all of this. But for sure, it will be the LAST time I do yard work this season.
Yesterdays's club trip to the Kirk on the Hill Presbyterian church was very nice. But even better was a trip to the Oak Hill Cemetery in Pontiac, Michigan. This old cemetery has some awesome monuments, headstones, and mausoleums. I took more photos in the hour that we were at the cemetery than the two hours that we were at the church.
Here is a little bio on the cemetery followed by a photo of a chapel that is at the entrance.
Pontiac was founded by the Pontiac Company in 1818, and the town’s first burying grounds were located on Stephen Mack’s land on the ridge east of the Clinton river (about where City Hall stands today), and in a small graveyard on the corner of Saginaw and Huron Streets. As the town expanded, a new burying ground was needed and in 1822 land was set aside by the Pontiac Company for a cemetery, church and parsonage east and north of town. In 1839 the cemetery was platted and burials began there in 1841, beginning with relocating the graves from the earlier burying grounds.
In 1825, Elizabeth Denison Forth, a freed slave and the first black woman to own land in Michigan, purchased 4 lots in Pontiac. She leased these lots to her brother, Scipio Forth, selling them in 1836 or 1837 to the village of Pontiac. Portions of this land became part of Oak Hill Cemetery. A historical marker stands on what was Ms. Forth’s land, commemorating her ownership of the property.