Till the River Runs Dry

Gallery: LandscapePosted April 16, 2011319 views8 comments

This was the last piece of film I had available at the end of the day. I had photographed these cypress trees before, but the light felt good, so I stopped what I was doing downstream and moved to this spot on the Mountain Fork River at Beavers Bend State Park in Oklahoma.

My brother-in-law is Garth Brook's banker and so we gave him a 20x24 print of this for Christmas a couple of years back.

Garth came back to the office last year with Trisha in tow and introduced her to my brother-in-law and said "It's your brother-in-law, right? The guy to shot that picture you gave us? Everyone loves that picture...", which was my first confirmation that it didn't end up in some roadie's apartment, so I was happy. :)

Tachihara 8x10, Nikon 480mm, Velvia 50, 120 seconds at f-90.

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Comment posted by Tom Dobrzanski on April 16, 2011 at 11:56 PM

Can't say any critique to it Michael. It is well worth framing and hanging on the wall!

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Comment posted by Marc Adamus on April 17, 2011 at 12:13 AM

Very nice, Michael. Wonderful soft light and atmosphere here to lend some separation to the layers. Seems to be tilted CW just over 1 degree, but otherwise not a thing I would change.

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Comment posted by Rick Goldwasser on April 17, 2011 at 12:48 AM

This is nice - the shapes of those trunks really add a lot to the beautiful fall colors and reflection.

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Comment posted by Guy Tal on April 17, 2011 at 7:17 AM

I love the color palette here, Mike. I bet it looks amazing in print. I agree with Marc about the slight tilt.

Guy

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Comment posted by Matt Anderson on April 17, 2011 at 11:07 AM

When I saw the thumbnail, my first impression was what film like color, and, sure enough. Great colors! Surely this has a wonderful timelessness to it. My wife has an old family cabin on Grand Lake, OK, we spend a week every year at. This definitely captures the essence of what I have experienced in the area. Lovely work!

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Comment posted by Tony Kuyper on April 17, 2011 at 12:24 PM

Neat picture, neat story.

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Comment posted by Dan Baumbach on April 17, 2011 at 1:47 PM

Beautiful, Michael.

- Dan.

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Comment posted by Wayne Willison on April 17, 2011 at 3:11 PM

Lovely colors. I like that you have cypress both in and out of the water here. Good sense of depth throughout as well.

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