A Long Way From Home

Gallery: LandscapePosted November 17, 2010139 views8 comments

The light wasn't really happening this day so I decided to use the wave action to make a shot. Here in Connecticut we have beautiful rocks like this one, which was probably dumped here by a glacier. It's a long way to it's possible home in Maine, where you find these orange rocks in abundance in places like Acadia. I did move this rock a few feet closer to where the waves were breaking. My knees won't be able to handle photography like this too much longer!

a100
22mm
20sec@f22
iso 100

Comments

8 comments

Comment posted by Bill Chambers on November 17, 2010 at 10:16 AM

This works great for me - love the black rocks interspersed with the one orange rock. My only nit is the slight barrel distortion on the horizon.

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Comment posted by Laurent Baig on November 17, 2010 at 2:08 PM

How very fun!

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Comment posted by Scott Smorra on November 17, 2010 at 4:40 PM

Cool shot Mark. I like the single orange rock surrounded by the black ones. I might consider a square crop to exclude the sky, since it seems like all of the interesting elements are towards the bottom/middle of the frame.

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Comment posted by Mark Pelton on November 17, 2010 at 7:17 PM

Beautiful soft color contrast, Mark. I like this even better cropped to just above the top rocks.

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Comment posted by Eva McDermott on November 17, 2010 at 7:32 PM

I really like the contrasts here Mark. I think by cropping the sky, it becomes a stronger image IMO. The water motion, black rocks, and lone orange rock all combine to make a beautiful image.

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Comment posted by Kah Kit Yoong on November 17, 2010 at 9:56 PM

Much stronger with the sky cropped out IMO. Lovely work though with the composition and shutter speed.

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Comment posted by Tony Kuyper on November 17, 2010 at 10:52 PM

Interesting eye for composing with available elements and light. The overall simplicity of this is appealing.

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Comment posted by Randy Wilson on November 18, 2010 at 4:21 PM

It's nice to see the cooler tones in a shot like this. I think I might have wanted to see the red rock not quite so centered, but this works very well, too. I also like the touch of warmer tones on the horizon. What makes the image for me, though, are all the darker stones. They look like black jewels.

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