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Mountains Make Me Happy

Mountains Make Me Happy

Being in a forest also makes me happy

Having both makes me blessed

Seeing trees thousands of years old

Brings out a wonder in shared world

I then see the blue skies above

And know I am truly experiencing life.

 

Another work of short poetry or prose to complement the image captured one afternoon in Inyo National Forest while walking the Methuselah Walk. The view is looking to the north up a nearby mountainside seemingly covered with those ancient bristlecone pine trees. I felt the blue skies would be more of a negative space, so I decided to angle my Nikon SLR camera and zoom in so that this mountainside filled up most of the image. There would be a portion of blue skies though to act as a color contrast to the earth tones present in the rest of the image. I later worked with control points in DxO PhotoLab 5 and then made some adjustments to bring out the contrast, saturation and brightness I wanted for the final image.

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Uploaded on January 6, 2022
Taken on October 3, 2021