Fall In Bishop Canyon

Extended family, huh? Well go ahead and get yourself a cookie from the cookie jar for this one. It's a great photo. Perfect shutter speed, great comp, and love the color.

Hope your back feels better.

Thank you Joseph, but can I have two cookies???

Yeah, I spend enough time here that my wife tells me there are other things in life. I ask her "like what". I'm sure everyone here has experienced the look I recieve from their own significant other!!!!

Chris

That is sweet, Chris. The comp and light are perfect.

You know, maybe it's just me, but for some reason I'd much rather hear about what's going on in people's lives in their posts rather the travails they endured to get the picture. There's a certain humanity in the former and just a super-humanness in the latter. I personally prefer the former. Hmm, reading glasses and bifocals and backache. Just a guess--mid-forties

Hey Tony, thanks! I agree completely. You know many of us may never get to meet each other in person. Our images and naratives are the things that offer us some sense of who a person is. I certainly hope that everyone that views my images feels like they know something about me from them. At least that I'm passionate about photography, and love nature, as well as beautiful things. But how else would anyone know I was a Tae Kwon Do student and eventually became a certified instructor. That I have 3 grandchildren. That I used to be an amateur bicycle "club" racer. That I love animals, especially dogs. And so on, and on. If I never spoke of these things, no one would know. So, I think it's good to share some info now and then that's outside the photography box.

By the way, I'm not currently practicing, or teaching Tae Kwon Do. My instructor, like my pastor, had a huge influence on my life. He was the best man at my wedding. He eventually lost his battle with cancer a few years ago. Once that happened, my passion for martial arts seemed to go away.

You nailed it, 46 this past march! I guess if I lost some weight and got back in the gym, I might have a healthier back and over all just plain feel better.

So there, now you all know everything you might ever want to know about me and then some!!!!!!!

Chris

Hey, I can relate to the back and the eyesight thing! I love your composition here, and the colour and contrasts seem spot on to me.

Nice image. I especially like the texture of the water in the FG.

I hope you feel better Chris. I like the shot. Processing looks spot. Great work!

Michael

Very nice Chris! This a delightful shot well done.

Lovely autumn scene here and very well captured and processed. Brings back that autumn feeling a little

This is very nice Chris! I really enjoy looking at the large version. Great exposure and comp. I like the looks of the water and the fall color really tops this off. Very well done! Hope your back does better soon. I know that feeling to well myself. Also nice knowing a little more about you. Cheers!

Nick Bristol
Lone Rock, WI

Very pretty - the greenish water and those fall colours. Overall it works pretty well but I'm finding the top 1/2 more compelling that the bottom.

Lovely image - I really like the way my eye is drawn inward to the great autumn color.

Sorry about the back - mid 40's sounds about right though (on the eyes too). Maybe your Pastor moving to Florida will give you an excuse to come visit - would love to take you to the beach and swamp. I do understand about the void though. I lost my best friend since childhood about 8 years ago and I still feel that void. Not a day goes by that I don't think about him and miss all the great times and adventures we shared.

Lovely detail in the large view Chis. The color also looks slightly different in the large view. I like your shutter speed as well.

Hope your back is better soon.

You seem to have an inexhaustable supply of good shots from your outings over the fall and winter. This is quite nice. Perhaps I'd prefer something with a little less creek, a little more fall color, but I believe you've posted a few that fall solidly into that category. Another very good shot.

Excellent shot!!!!. made it to late last year for fall in Bishop, can relate to the eye thing, got two pair of glasses myself one for far seeing and one for reading, can't get used to Bifocals. I really hate glasses, specially when I shoot pictures they always seem to fog up, driving me nuts. Enough said

Thanks guys, I appreciate it.

Bill, if I ever get anywhere close to Florida, I'll be giving you a call. I'd love to get together and see some of your neck of the woods. They pretty much said I had no choice in the matter, and had to come visit, so I expect we'll be out sometime. Sorry to hear about the loss of your friend.

Chris

Man how'd I miss this one? I don't remember seeing you grab this image. Nice find and well captured I might add. Get well soon so we can do it again this coming Fall. I'll make sure to have a beer waiting for you.

Chris,

It's tough to lose mentors at any time in our lives, however at least the pastor didn't move on to another plane of existence. Far beyond our reach," most of the time" No problem for me, I have appreciated greatly all the mentors I have here at NPN, of which I include you. Great image, and from a great trip if it's from early October last year. Thanks as always for your past comments and input and get well.

Paul

Thanks Eric, I'll be ready! Don't forget more of that heavily peppered salami too!!!!

Anyway, I grabbed this while Steve and I were unsuccessfully trying to find where you managed to cross the creek. I have a horizontal too.

Thanks,
Chris

Hey Chris, first the photo--lovely, what how long of an exposure, just curious?? I was going to guess, but won't! ;)

Personally, I like the stories behind the photos, and the stories behind the photographers. To me, it's all good and I wish you the best!! And I'm 48 and can relate a bit--developed some health problems about four years ago that really limit my mobility (not to mention my income)... but if it weren't for those problems, I may not have discovered my passion for photography that had lain dormant for so long. Life is weird. Enjoy it!

Beautiful mountain stream, well exposed, nice colors. Lots to look at and enjoy. Wish I was there! I find myself wishing there was just a bit more of the forest in the frame but that's minor. Good job!

Chris: That's a really nicely done image. I love the larger version which I think really brings it home. I hope you gave your departing Pastor one of your 'peaceful' prints to remember you by. :)

Great motion in the water and sharpness through-out. Back pain and glasses...I love being in my 40's

Chris,

Man, I almost missed this one and it certainly seems like a missed a family reunion or something. Hey, sorry to hear about the back - hope you're getting better. Don't fret too much about the getting old part. We're all right there with ya.

Oh, the image. Beautiful and classic Eastern Sierra autumn image. Processing and all the techs look great. The only suggestion/observation I have is that to me, this looks slightly rotated. It's like I want to rotate this a degree or so CW. No biggie though and since no one else noticed it, it must be me.

Wonderful image Chris. I hope you're feeling better.

Lon

A beautifully executed study... simple, effective and very lovely.