Teton Tableau
Teton Mountains, Grand Teton National Park, Wyoming
These surely are among the most beautiful mountains in the world. I'm not suggesting they are THE most beautiful--I've seen enough of some of those others to know better--but they are glorious.
Do take a look after expanding it to fill the screen.
This was from my spring (2022) trip to the Northwest and was a spontaneous add-on. I had originally planned to take a more direct route to Oregon that would have had me traveling well north through Montana. Having reached my first planned major stop, Badlands National Park, a look ahead convinced me that a detour was warranted. My last visit here was over 50 years ago when but a wee lad, and though I retained vivid memories of that last encounter, it seemed time, past time, to make some new memories of this wonderful place.
This photo drove me crazy, taking much longer to process than average. I attempted for the greater part of this effort to do this in color, but it just wasn't working for me. When I switched to monochrome, again I was displeased initially, and briefly switched back to color. I finally decided to make this a composite. I stood at the spot for about four hours, taking numerous photos using three different lenses--so I had a lot of photographs to choose from. The main photo, which takes up at least 75% of the finished product, had an immediate foreground that was uniformly, and boringly, illuminated. In terms of the variegated cloud cover and the lighting of the mountains, however, it was the best, IMO. So, I used the foreground from another photo that made for a better contrast, with much of it being in deep shadow courtesy of a large dark cloud. I know that for some, this bit of editing disqualifies the piece for consideration as a "good" photograph. To each his own. But the attempt here is to create something that one might call "art"--not a bit of photojournalism. Thus, every tool in my toolbox can be used with abandon in that legitimate, if futile, effort.
Incidentally, both photos used here are Panos combining three snaps using my 35mm lens.
Teton Tableau
Teton Mountains, Grand Teton National Park, Wyoming
These surely are among the most beautiful mountains in the world. I'm not suggesting they are THE most beautiful--I've seen enough of some of those others to know better--but they are glorious.
Do take a look after expanding it to fill the screen.
This was from my spring (2022) trip to the Northwest and was a spontaneous add-on. I had originally planned to take a more direct route to Oregon that would have had me traveling well north through Montana. Having reached my first planned major stop, Badlands National Park, a look ahead convinced me that a detour was warranted. My last visit here was over 50 years ago when but a wee lad, and though I retained vivid memories of that last encounter, it seemed time, past time, to make some new memories of this wonderful place.
This photo drove me crazy, taking much longer to process than average. I attempted for the greater part of this effort to do this in color, but it just wasn't working for me. When I switched to monochrome, again I was displeased initially, and briefly switched back to color. I finally decided to make this a composite. I stood at the spot for about four hours, taking numerous photos using three different lenses--so I had a lot of photographs to choose from. The main photo, which takes up at least 75% of the finished product, had an immediate foreground that was uniformly, and boringly, illuminated. In terms of the variegated cloud cover and the lighting of the mountains, however, it was the best, IMO. So, I used the foreground from another photo that made for a better contrast, with much of it being in deep shadow courtesy of a large dark cloud. I know that for some, this bit of editing disqualifies the piece for consideration as a "good" photograph. To each his own. But the attempt here is to create something that one might call "art"--not a bit of photojournalism. Thus, every tool in my toolbox can be used with abandon in that legitimate, if futile, effort.
Incidentally, both photos used here are Panos combining three snaps using my 35mm lens.