The Unexpected
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On Memorial Day my wife and I headed out to search the countryside for interesting barns or other scenes to photograph. We stumbled across a beautiful Memorial Day display at the cemetery in Benton, Ks., which I posted an image of on Monday. We did find a barn, but the sky was not particularly interesting. We ended up eating a little picnic lunch at Lake Afton, which is a few miles from Wichita. As I looked up at the underside of the wooden shelter we were under, I thought…wow that looks kind of interesting. I took a bracketed set, put it through Photomatix, then back into Lightroom for level tweaks and a monochrome conversion. A totally unexpected subject, and turned out to be one of my favorites of our little trip.
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Great shot, Charles. I really like this kind of symmetry and the texture and tone is terrific. An unexpected surprise like this is a real treat and I’m glad you recognized it when you saw it. Scenes like this go unnoticed so often. The shot is a reminder to all photographers that they need to be aware of their surroundings at all times and open to new ideas.
May 30, 2012 at 4:15 pm
Thank you sir. One of my “rules” is to always look behind me in case something interesting is happening….now I guess I should amend it to also look above.
May 31, 2012 at 11:12 pm
Very well done. An intriguing image. The viewer could not tell the context without the background information. As a consequence, it has a pure, almost abstract-timeless quality.
June 1, 2012 at 2:55 pm