Monday, April 7, 2014

Catching the first snow of the day at Difficult Run, March 25, 2014 -- Jim Coates

Dear colleagues

I am posting some photos from the Difficult Run in the Snow event.   I may not be able to participate in the class tomorrow evening, but I did want to contribute some photos.  As I look at them I remember how frozen my fingers got, as the snow kept on coming down.










2 comments:

  1. A strong series. I like the clear, gelid quality of the water and reflections in the top image, the very lightest, first dusting of snow and the gesture of the fallen log in the next, the long view in the next, especially the amazing formal quality of the fourth (!), the view of the stream mouth with bankside plants in the sixth. With the next long shot with the pine, I might have tried to separate the bare branch touching the pine. The leaf close up seems Jimsian - related to the wonderful spring poplar flowers from Scott's Run you showed the first night. (I am completely a pushover for all things beech.) How often is something paler than the longest remaining marcescent leaves? Only when it snows on them, I think. Then the under bridge scene with the pounded red clay, graffiti and white world beyond. Perhaps you used Lr Upright to straighten built elements. (I did anyway and your appear quite rectilinear and perspecitve controlled. Spring collection with evocative variety and feeling.

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  2. Thank you Barbara. I would love to see your photos from the same outing.

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