A bit of wild Florida

black mambablack mamba Registered Users Posts: 8,323 Major grins
edited July 19, 2020 in Other Cool Shots

Some cypress trees along the banks of the St. Johns River a little south of Jacksonville.

I always wanted to lie naked on a bearskin rug in front of a fireplace. Cracker Barrel didn't take kindly to it.

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  • StumblebumStumblebum Registered Users Posts: 8,480 Major grins

    Halloween is early this year?

  • David_S85David_S85 Administrators Posts: 13,249 moderator

    That... that just looks alien. And nightmareish. I love it!

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  • black mambablack mamba Registered Users Posts: 8,323 Major grins

    @Stumblebum said:
    Halloween is early this year?

    Dang! I must have been holding the calendar upside down.

    I always wanted to lie naked on a bearskin rug in front of a fireplace. Cracker Barrel didn't take kindly to it.
  • black mambablack mamba Registered Users Posts: 8,323 Major grins

    @David_S85 said:
    That... that just looks alien. And nightmareish. I love it!

    I tell you, David, you pull into a dark cove with a stand of cypress trees like this, consumed by moss, it does get a little spooky.

    I always wanted to lie naked on a bearskin rug in front of a fireplace. Cracker Barrel didn't take kindly to it.
  • toragstorags Registered Users Posts: 4,615 Major grins

    Spooky is right...

    I rode & floated thru the Honey Island swamp in Louisiana; Tom is right it can get spooky...

    That moss is interesting... it grows in air & they used to use it in car seats in the 30's...

    Interesting treatment Tom...

    Rags
  • black mambablack mamba Registered Users Posts: 8,323 Major grins
    edited July 20, 2020

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    @torags said:
    Spooky is right...

    I rode & floated thru the Honey Island swamp in Louisiana; Tom is right it can get spooky...

    That moss is interesting... it grows in air & they used to use it in car seats in the 30's...

    Interesting treatment Tom...

    Thanks for commenting, Rags. I stepped out a little on the treatment to emphasize the eerie feeling I was getting from the scene.

    For those not used to moss, you'd be well advised to leave that stuff alone. As a youngster on a camping trip, I made a nice fluffy, comfy bed out of it. I had not learned yet the folly of such a move. Those little devil red bugs make moss their preferred home. And there is nothing, nothing that can cause you more scratching misery than to have a mess of those creatures burrowed under your skin. The intensity of the itching is indescribable. A dab of fingernail polish over the affected site is often used as a treatment. It's said to deprive the little SOBs of oxygen and they die. The moss sold for floral decorations has been treated. In any event, it's best to just avoid moss.

    I always wanted to lie naked on a bearskin rug in front of a fireplace. Cracker Barrel didn't take kindly to it.
  • CornflakeCornflake Registered Users Posts: 3,346 Major grins

    Interesting shot. Black and white is inherently more abstract and permits greater liberties.

  • JuanoJuano Registered Users Posts: 4,890 Major grins

    I like this a lot, at first glance I thought it was IR, but apparently not, right?

  • black mambablack mamba Registered Users Posts: 8,323 Major grins

    @Cornflake said:
    Interesting shot. Black and white is inherently more abstract and permits greater liberties.

    I agree with that, Don. I do very little B&W work, mainly because, to be good at it, I need to be more tuned in to the different nuances between B&W and color work.....mostly, to me, in PP. Since I've focused on B&W a little more lately, I've become more aware that it can be the preferred ( and sometimes only ) process in getting your image to tell the story you want it to. This image here is proof positive of that. Despite all of my efforts, I couldn't get a color version to convey the image that I was seeing in my mind.

    I always wanted to lie naked on a bearskin rug in front of a fireplace. Cracker Barrel didn't take kindly to it.
  • CornflakeCornflake Registered Users Posts: 3,346 Major grins

    I understand. I love color but there are times when color drowns out everything else. There's no reason to be a purist either way.

    I took an online course in B&W three years back. It was mostly a Photoshop course but it helped a lot. It also improved my color work. You might want to consider something like that.

  • black mambablack mamba Registered Users Posts: 8,323 Major grins
    edited July 20, 2020

    @Juano said:
    I like this a lot, at first glance I thought it was IR, but apparently not, right?

    I'm pleased that you like it. No, it's not IR, but I sure can see it looks like it could be.

    The bark ( I'll call it that but it's more like a skin with grooves that run vertically up and down the trunk ) on the cypress trees have, naturally, a very pronounced bleached-out appearance. In this case, they were darn near white to start with. So I didn't have to fiddle with things too much to get an image that is certainly enhanced somewhat but not near as much as someone would suppose. Take care, buddy.

    I always wanted to lie naked on a bearskin rug in front of a fireplace. Cracker Barrel didn't take kindly to it.
  • El GatoEl Gato Registered Users Posts: 1,242 Major grins

    Tom...

    As a lover of B&W, this image is wonderful! Nice work!

  • black mambablack mamba Registered Users Posts: 8,323 Major grins

    @El Gato said:
    Tom...

    As a lover of B&W, this image is wonderful! Nice work!

    Well, Gato, I can't tell you how much I appreciate your comments. It means a great deal to me

    I always wanted to lie naked on a bearskin rug in front of a fireplace. Cracker Barrel didn't take kindly to it.
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