A grand collapse of foliage,
a lens that distorts.
Old willows frame
paths to obscurity.
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Photographs made at Juanita Bay Park in Kirkland, Washington with a Lensbaby Composer Pro and processed in Lightroom (a few changes made in Color Efex Pro). For some photographs, in-camera filters such as Dramatic Tone, Grainy Film & Soft Focus (on an Olympus OM D1 camera) were used.
The trees are mainly willows, the ferns are Lady ferns (Athrium felix-femina). The single leaf on the ground that’s turning color as if it were a map is from a Cottonwood tree.
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You may have inspired me to get out my Lensbaby again. Lovely ethereal shots.
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Yes, do it, especially if it’s a time you’re not sure what you want to do or what direction you’re going in. It’s freeing. Thanks for commenting, Lynn.
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excellent and thrilling how you captured simple things in nature
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Thank you for commenting. I like to try to show things, especially nature, in a slightly different light so maybe people will look more carefully and enjoy it more themselves, the next time they’re out.
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That’s an great idea to focus nature in your way… …and of course inspiring to see nature in a different when people are out the next time.
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Atmospheric and mystical all at once, and even a little dizzying. Wonderful series once again, Lynn. 🙂
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I’m OK with throwing you a little of balance, if you’re OK with it. 🙂
Thanks Cathy!
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Of course I am, Lynn. It’s always a pleasure to see your creativity in action. 🙂
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Mood seems romantic and dreamy-beautiful!!
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I’m glad you were able to get a look – feel better! !
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Great shot, Lynn, especially the ferns!
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Thanks Ken, it was fun to loosen up and see what happens. And I do really like ferns!
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You have a masterful way of making nature seem otherworldly, Lynn. And the simple introduction set the mood perfectly!
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Well, I hope it seems otherworldly in a good way. 😉
Thanks for mentioning the intro. After the last few posts where I wrote a lot, I was so ready to keep it simple!!!!
Hope to see you all soon!
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What a beautiful series of autumn photographs, Lynn!
I especially love the second one. It looks like a beautiful painting.
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Thank you Lisa – I was happy with the way the ferns turned out. It’s fun to play with less predictable lenses once in a while.
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FANTASTIC! I love the dreamy feeling of this collection.
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I’m glad, Denise…like I was saying to Gunta above, changing it up is refreshing sometimes. And you can’t predict how the lensbaby and the in-camera filter shots are going to look as well as you can predict how a “normal” lens shot will turn out. That keeps the photography looser.
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I definitely want to meander down the paths you posted. You gave us such inviting and dreamy glimpses. So very mysterious.
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🙂 It’s really fun to work with a different look sometimes. Part of me loves a dreamy look. Thanks Gunta!
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The first picture gets to me big time, and I’m also struck by the tree with two, big diverging trunks – and I must get to use Color Efex Pro more, LR is making me far too lazy in that respect – although LR very, very seldom supplants SEP2 for mono work.
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The first one is what I think of as your kind of look -glad you like it. I’m forgetting right now but I think it was done with an in-camera filter effect. Those can be fun to experiment with. I don’t think I did much in color efex this time. Much of the intense contrast (latter photos) was also from an in-camera filter. That being said, it seems there’s always more to discover in color efex; I have hardly scratched the surface.
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I love those ferns Lynn. I also like the grasses very much but they’re all superb! I read on Gunta’s blog that you were packing. For somewhere nice I hope. 🙂
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Yes, we’re in NYC now… battling traffic, seeing friends and family and reliving favorite sights and foods, yum! I know the blurred effect may not be your thing but hope you enjoyed it for a change.
So far here it seems most of what I’m photographing is on the fly. Friday I get together with Patti Kuche of Nylon Daze – I think you know her?
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I’m sure you meeting with Patti was great. I’d so like to be able to meet all my American friends but I think I’d have to hire a RV and spend a year criss-crossing the country. Not something I can do right now but who knows.. a lottery win perhaps? 🙂
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It was fun seeing Patti again – nice weather, we sat outside in lower Manhattan and talked….a lottery win sounds good, and I bet you could persuade some of your US friends to gather together, to save you a few miles…why not?
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LOVE the ferns! Especially the second photo. Beautiful! thank you for sharing 🙂
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Thanks very much! I’m crazy about ferns and photograph them often. Thanks for stopping by, I appreciate your comment.
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The first photo does it for me, Lynn, though numbers 2 and 7 come close. What I like about number 11 is that it has something smack in the middle—and the composotion works.
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The first – I’m surprised! The 11th kind of surprised me, because I used an in camera filet that exaggerates the tones, so I didn’t foresee it looking like that but I liked it, so I’m glad you did, too. 🙂
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Such beautiful dreaminess, Lynn – I could get lost in your images.
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Thank you Lyunn, and I must go take a look at yours – I’m behind, but I’ll be there soon! 😉
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The boardwalk looks familiar. Is that where you photographed the old man, or spent some time during the eclipse? Boardwalks are boardwalks, I suppose, but you seem to have a number of very nice ones around. The pastel orange and green leaves are lovely. They remind me of sherbet.
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Yes, you’re right in both cases! Sorry for the late reply. That park is nearby and reliable so i go there a lot. Good birding there, too. People in the Pacific Northwest tend to have a huge respect for the outdoors, which seems to extend to taking care with whatever is built there, in parks anyway. Sherbet – that’s a great association!
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Very imaginative work, Lynn. Thant single leaf is a beauty and I see exactly what you saw – a map of fields on either side of a highway.
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Thank you, I’m glad you liked this. That leaf was very cool, and I always like to play with scale.
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I like the ‘otherworldliness’ feel of several of these images – very quietening.
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It’s a good pace to go sometimes, that other world. Thank you Louis!
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You have been in a mid-autumn-day’s dream, certainly nothing to shake a speare at. Wonderful bit of whimsy, Lynn!
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Talk about whimsy, thanks for that grin! I’m glad you liked it, seriously.
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Always so much fun exploring the woods your way Lyn, I feel the buzz of nymphs here in the air!
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Very possible….
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Lovely images. I really love the distortion that the Lensbaby creates. I might have to get one of these lenses one day. 🙂
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They’re fun to play with – I was just using it again this morning, for the fall leaves. The other “odd” lens I have is an old Super-Takumar 50mm f1.8. It’ has a slight golden cast due to radioactive coatings, but I like that. It’s really hard to focus, maybe because of the adaptive mount – same problem with the lens baby, that’s what I get for having a micro 4/3! But both lenses are a nice way to see differently, which is always useful. Thanks for your comments Otto!
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‘A grand collapse of foliage’ – so perfect!
I do love images that are little distorted… : )
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I’ve been watching the collapse for months now, it seems. It can be very graceful, can’t it? And you have inspired me, you know!
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