“In art economy is always beauty” Henry James
This past Fall I returned back to the woods and rivers of the Upper Peninsula of Michigan to get more acquainted with an area that I first visited a year earlier. While my initial intent was to continue to photograph parts of the larger scenes, including waterfalls, lake shores and as many sunsets and sunrises as possible, I found myself increasingly more focused on smaller parts of these parts.
In the case of the rushing water scene above I was dealing with the shapes and lines of color and light and working for a composition that used these elements to indicate the motion of the water. While working with a multiple of shutter speeds to find just the right delineation of the movement I also had to pay attention to maintaining the reflected Fall and sky colors that also helped in defining the moving subject.
Not far from the above location a scene also presented itself that contained the beauty of backlit sunlight on Sumac leaves. While the whole scene was complex and confusing with splashes of color, light and shadow, by looking closer the scene could be broken down to simpler elements which still spoke of the beauty of color and light as seen below.
Both images were captured with a Canon 5D Mk II and processed with the use of Photoshop CS6 and Nik sofware.
Just like in life, often the whole is defined by the sum of its parts and often the parts present a more defining intimate view of the whole story.
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