On Tue, 22 Feb 2005 21:00:28 -0500, Peter J. Alling <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Nice exposure, great tonality, good color, but you're right I've got no > feeling for the scale of the thing. > > Bruce Dayton wrote: > > >Over the weekend, my oldest daughter was participating in the > >California All-State band and we had to go pick her up. The event was > >in Fresno, which is about 1 1/2 hours from Kings Canyon/Sequoia > >National Parks. So we were able to get the last room in the lodge up > >near the big trees. We headed down Sunday to pick her up and after > >the afternoon concert headed up into the mountains in the middle of > >the snow. The evening and next morning were wonderful with the kids > >playing in the falling snow. > > > >We went to visit the 2nd largest tree in the world - the General Grant > >Sequoia. As you can imagine, it is nigh unto impossible to convey > >just how big these trees are. This shot doesn't really try to convey > >it, but hopefully gives you a feeling of the beauty there. > > > >Pentax *istD, K 200/2.5, handheld > >ISO 200, 1/750 sec > > > >http://www.daytonphoto.com/PAW/bkd_1257.htm > > > >Converted in C1 to Tiff - Some levels and saturation in Picture Window > >Pro - converted to jpg, sized/sharpened for the web. > > > >Comments welcome
First, to Peter: Don't get all excited again, but it seems to be an emerging pattern wherein I don't receive the initial post, but the first post I get in a PAW thread is your reply. I think the pdml gods are at work, trying to tell us something (but I'm not sure what; neither do I want to know...). Second to Bruce, Lovely photo. I like that you got that snow on the branches of the other trees (what? snow in California? <g>). I really like the composition and the detail. Even though one doesn't get a sense of scale, it's pretty cool the way that big trunk just seem to keep going up and up and up. cheers, frank -- "Sharpness is a bourgeois concept." -Henri Cartier-Bresson
