120 dollar ticket

Gallery: LandscapePosted October 22, 2014587 views18 comments

I am up in door county Wisconsin this week, and the colors are still in peak form :). I will get back to posting more when I am back in town next week, but wanted to share an image with y'all. This was captured last Thursday at Starved Rock State Park, IL. It is a part of the park that is closed off due to people falling and injuring or killing themselves. I think these parks should have none of these silly laws for people, and hike at your own risk, but oh well it is Illinois and not Wyoming.

Anyways,
I finally got caught up here, but the officer was kind of enough to let me shot for 10 minutes until I liked the image I captured.Plus, I have a few more images from this location.

canon 70d
canon 10-22 at 18 mm
b+w Polarizer
f16
is 400
.8 second

Always,
thank you for your thoughts and comments, and for taking some time out of your day.

Comments

18 comments

Comment posted by Bill Reid on October 22, 2014 at 10:51 AM

Beautiful colors and flow through the scene Ryan. A very relaxing feel to this and a very nice reflection. Very well done.

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Comment posted by Thomas Haney on October 22, 2014 at 11:06 AM

Beautiful shot Ryan, i love the reflection and small waterfall below. Looks like a pretty dangerous place!

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Comment posted by Ronald Murphy on October 22, 2014 at 11:49 AM

Pretty near perfect: fore, mid and back grounds all interesting with rich color. I'm surprised you didn't kill yourself at such a dangerous spot.

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Comment posted by Joel Hazelton on October 22, 2014 at 11:51 AM

My god, this image is perfect. One of the idyllic fall scenes I've seen.

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Comment posted by Allen Brooks on October 22, 2014 at 11:57 AM

Great fall colors; particularly like the color of the reflection.

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Comment posted by Riccardo Boesso on October 22, 2014 at 2:04 PM

Wonderful.
Perfect on every aspect.
My only suggestion is to go on with photographs like this one.

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Comment posted by D.A. Edwards on October 22, 2014 at 3:02 PM

Righteous shot, Ryan. Were you really ticketed for $120 at the same time you were allowed to keep shooting? Weird...
My only very minor nit would be to perhaps crop down a bit from the top to reduce the amount of white/pink area at the top of the image but that's really scraping for a criticism.

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Comment posted by Pat Sampson on October 22, 2014 at 3:12 PM

Gorgeous color and a superb composition Ryan. Perfect water treatment for my tastes. Lovely Fall mood. Really fine work.

Don't get me started on the nanny society. (smile)

pat

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Comment posted by John&Patty Benway on October 22, 2014 at 3:57 PM

Beautiful color and light Ryan,along with a very appealing comp, gotta love the golds of autumn. Beautiful work.
John

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Comment posted by Gary McGhee on October 22, 2014 at 6:30 PM

There is not a lot not to like in this Ryan, very nicely composed and wonderful colour throughout.

Gary.

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Comment posted by Nick Bristol on October 22, 2014 at 7:03 PM

Ryan, This looks wonderful. I'm enjoying the fall mood of this very much. Your comp works so nice and I really like what that little foreground waterfall adds to the scene.

Nick Bristol
Lone Rock, WI

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Comment posted by Ed Lowe on October 22, 2014 at 10:15 PM

Exceptional image, Ryan. The mood here is fantastic as is the reflection and I particularly like the placement of that yellow leaf in the LRC. Bummer about the ticket.

Print this baby big to help ease the pain.

Ed

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Comment posted by Zack Clothier on October 22, 2014 at 11:33 PM

Really nice lead in created by the small waterfall, and that reflection midway is great, what an explosion of color!

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Comment posted by Aaron Feinberg on October 23, 2014 at 1:10 AM

Killer spot. Nature should always be at ones on risk. #nannystate. Nice shot and glad he let you shoot :)

aF

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Comment posted by Anil Rao on October 24, 2014 at 1:45 AM

There is sk much to explore in the photograph. I could stare at it for s long time.

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Comment posted by Jared Warren on October 24, 2014 at 4:32 PM

Totally worth it, IMO. What a beautiful image. Well done!

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Comment posted by Ryan Shain on October 25, 2014 at 9:02 PM

Thanks y'all for all the great feedback, and it is much appreciated.

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Comment posted by Bill Chambers on October 27, 2014 at 2:57 PM

Very pretty Ryan. Looks like you're having a great autumn.

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