Lichenization

Gary:

We used to date glacial moranial events by measuring the size of the lichen circles.  The one we used was Rizocharpon Geograficum and advanced the circle maybe a cm per 100 years in the area we worked.  

Nice image, enjoy the B&W as always!   Tom

Wow there is some great light in this image. The rock is marvelous as is the sky. The bush bothers me for some reason. My experience with trips that involve both fly fishing and photography is that the compositions are a bit rushed. It's either one or the other for me. Hopefully you caught some nice cutts.

Lichens ánd lenticualr clouds in one photo, that's just great. Both are favorite subjects of mine as well, although lichens mostly with a macro lens. Needless to say than that I like this one, haha. Maybe the bright white parts of the snow are a bit too bright, but that's not a big deal. Love how the lichens stand out from the rock, you did a great job on that.

I like this! Great sky, very interesting pattern on the rocks and nice balance to the comp.  I might consider adding a little texture to the pure white areas in the snow? 

Curious why you used an ND8 at ISO 400 rather than going without a filter and dropping your ISO?

You will have to let me borrow that 24-195 lens sometime. Never used one. 

 

Hi Gary,

Looks good--I like the contrasty light and the clouds are awesome.  The lichen encrusted rock has some very nice texture...................Jim

Gary,

I love this!  My first thought was not lichen, but petroglyphs!  Very cool find. And I like your composition, the light and how this was all framed.  Awesome clouds too!

Harley hit on my only suggestion, and that would be to do some creative work to minimize the blown out snow in the lower left. Not a huge issue, but just something to really put this image a little higher up on the awesome scale. ;-)

I'm curious too how the color version looks?  I might guess if the rock has any orange or warm tones it would contrast nicely with the blue in the sky.  But b&w works perfectly here too.

I like the way the sky appears to push you into the foregroundand the rock.  The lichens almost look like petroglyphs.
Very nice light and shadow.

This is very interesting, Gary. I like how the upper-most cloud aligns with the boulder. I agree with Harley about working that lower left corner snow. Other than that, the tones and detail look great.

--P

When I first saw the thumbnail I thought the rock was covered in petroglyphs. Then it all came together, I think that B&W works very well, both in the rock and the contrast of the dark sky with the clouds

I like the forground rock and the tones in it. It provides me with a wonderful lead in to the rest of the image. nicely seen and captured.
Jim

 Hi  Gary  love  how the sky and the lichen  patterns work  in harmony.  the quality of light and detail are first class..
Albert Darmo
Canada

Very special image.  Great going.  

Interesting but perhaps too busy.