Please click to view LARGER. It might be the last time you see this beautiful scene before Hurricane Irma "rearranges" it.
Robin and I were on the Wakulla River a couple of weeks ago. At that time we certainly didn't anticipate Hurricane Irma might be devastating the Wakulla, Aucilla, Wacissa, St. Mark's rivers as well as St. Mark's Wildlife Refuge a couple of weeks later. When you live in Florida, and have been through numerous hurricanes as I have, you realize that everything is temporary and is subject to Mother Nature's whims, but it still tears at your heart to actually witness it. So many trees and plants will be uprooted and destroyed, so many animals will die. True, this is all a part of nature but it's still gut-wrenching. People, housing, property? Sure, I worry about that too, but people can evacuate and property and houses can be insured and rebuilt. My heart breaks for every loss we're about to witness.
Thank you all for the suggestions and comments on my previous image, they were very helpful.
To my fellow Floridians, please be safe out there as Irma bears down upon our beautiful state.
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9 commentsThis shot certainly captures the quiet, lush, green beauty of the place. Well done.
Anyway.... appropriate reasons why you posted this image. And it's a beautiful landscape. The challenge with this is combining a gentle, pastoral landscape (ok, riverscape...) with a strong vertical and domineering subject. I think the saving element here is that you at least have some interest in the sky. It's soft and subtle, but at least there is enough color, texture and light variation in the sky of the upper left quadrant to help hold the composition together.
The large view is wonderful.
Stay safe.
Lon
Beautifully composed image. I might boost the vibrance as it seems a bit flat to my eye. I think that would give a nice boost to the subtle colors in the sky.
Up here in the northwest, we are on pins and needles to see what is left of our beautiful Gorge. I hope that some vistas have opened up, and that in a few year there will be some nice wildflower images in new areas, but I grieve that it won't look the same in my lifetime.
Hopefully if this scene is lost, you can return to capture what nature brings to replace it!
Your image to me is a celebration of how wonderful our natural world is and can be. Sadly, it does have a lot that can damage it over time, including of course devastating mankind neglect tallies as well.
This view is just super and the depth gives a yearning to want to travel deeper into the scene. I've always been the type to want to see what is in the distance or around the next corner. This FG large tree on right is an iconic symbol for this territory you so often do your photographic work in. I love that old tree and the moss? hanging from it......wonderful scene.
My first impression was that the sky was boring and there was just too much of it. But that's because we shoot sunset/sunrise mostly or we pimp the sky to have striking colors. But this sky has a gentle and welcoming beauty. There is a feminine sense to it. And that light pervades to all the trees and water below. This image doesn't shout at you. I reveals the best of our world without trying to impress you.
In a way it shows us what we gave up after we decided to get 'serious' about photography. It's an unfortunate fact that images like these no longer win anything here.
--P
I hope this place didn't suffer too much damage.