On 1/24/2012 6:31 AM, Joel Wilcox wrote:
> This stuff makes it "just different":
>
> http://myweb.uiowa.edu/jfwilcox/IRNP/album/Rock%20Harbor/slides/_9055119.html
>
> I could not get a single photo that did justice to the impression when
> one comes up on a whole area overtaken by old man's beard.
Areas like that aren't uncommon around the country, but uncommonly difficult to
photograph well, at least for small
prints or the web.
I think it's the way our eyes work. With overall vision showing a wide area,
and a narrow, moving spot of sharp focus,
our mind produces an apparent image of a wide area with lots of sharp detail.
That 'look' is quite hard to recreate in
anything but a pretty large print.
I recall stopping quickly and getting out to shoot this one, because it so
impressed me. Lost, as usual with such
subjects, between a wider view and a closer one showing detail, I made this
image that's not much of anything other than
a memory jogger.
<http://galleries.moosemystic.net/Monterey%20-%20June%202006/Point%20Lobos/slides/_MG_0419.html>
> I'm kind of glad we had almost entirely sunny days. It has the feeling of a
> crypt and hauntings and dead sailors walking in out of the deep.
Could be worse, kudzu that wraps you up in the sea of green before you can get
out. :-)
Old Man With Beard Moose
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