Igor PDML-StR wrote:
Larry,
Sorry to hear about your mom's problem. Hopefully she'll recover soon.
I especially like the last photo, with the raindrops on berries (are
those tart cherries?).
I have no idea what they are.
(There is something that is not perfect in it though. First, I thought,
it could be the fact that none of the 3-4 raindrops are on the "nodal"
3x3 lines. But then I realized that the one on the right red berry is
on or very close to the nodal point. So, I don't know..)
I tried various takes and compositions. I was trying to position the
camera so that as many as possible are in the plane of focus. Within
that constraint, I couldn't quite fit them onto the nodal points, so I
tried to approximate the nodal rectangle with them.
An the trees reminded me of the paintings by 19th century Russian
painter, Ivan Shishkin. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ivan_Shishkin
Actually, this Russian Wikipedia page displays a large number of his
paintings: https://goo.gl/uqJmKM
The one that is closest in its mood to your photos is this one, "Forest":
https://goo.gl/PM2wzB
The most famous painting (still in a very similar style) is
"Morning in a Pine Forest" (sometimes called just "Bears"):
https://goo.gl/aj6QPJ
(It was coauthorede with a less famous painter, Konstantin Savitsky)
According to Wikipedia, "According to one poll, the painting is the
second most popular in Russia ..."
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Morning_in_a_Pine_Forest
I'll take that as a compliment
Igor
On Wed, Feb 8, 2017 at 3:20 AM, Larry Colen wrote:
I've been wanting to go for a road trip to get a chance to take some
pictures. In the department of be careful what you ask for, here are some
photos from a walk I took this afternoon:
https://www.flickr.com/photos/ellarsee/sets/72157678294242901
Long story short, Mom broke her hip Sunday morning (or Saturday night,
she
was found Sunday morning) at her place in Newport Oregon. She ended up at
Good Samaritan Hospital in Corvallis (no relation to the Good Sam that
she
worked at in San Jose). I drove up Sunday night getting there Monday
morning. The partial hip replacement yesterday was successful with no
major
complications, and she was even able to stand (with the help of the rehab
team and a walker) this afternoon. Afterwards she was quite groggy
when she
was awake and I went for a short walk with my camera in the woods near
the
hospital.
Meanwhile, this morning the river behind my house (600miles/1000km
from me
right now) was running the highest it has in 20 years (20,000 cfm
flow, 95
was also about 20k, 54 and 82 were about 30k and the house didn't flood),
but it looks like the storm Thursday is supposed to bring about twice as
much water as yesterday/today's storm did.
It's been an interesting week by Tuesday.
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Larry Colen [email protected] (postbox on min4est) http://red4est.com/lrc
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