JD750 Loc: SoCal

I often go back and re-shoot a scene. Granted things change, light changes, seasons change. But sometimes it pays off to stalk a photo rather than run and gun.

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Fur shore !

Some of my pix took days or months or, less often, years. In every instance I had a more-than-halfway idea of the result ... and acoarst the less-than-half remaining is open to serendipity !

Uuglypher Loc: South Dakota (East River)

[quote=User ID]Sure ... just reset the date and time in the camera back to that day and return to the same spot. The same clouds and light will greet you. Try it. You got anything else on your plate these days ?

Okey donkey!
I went back today, and here ‘tiz!
Dave
Howzat for bein’ cooperative?

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The new one stands on its own as a vista but there were elements that really fascinated me in the earlier version and I miss them in this version.

This one seems to be about the land with sky as only a backdrop, while the earlier one seemed to be about the sky with the land as foreground serving only as an underpinning but not dominant.

Two sides of the same coin ... leaves wondering what the third side will be about since you apparently have regular access to the scene !

Uuglypher Loc: South Dakota (East River)

Hi,User,

Right you are: the sky was less dramatic yesterday...not up to the glorious standard of the day the first-posted image was made, and required (IMO) the composition seen here.

This region of eastern South Dakota and adjoining western Minnesota is beset with numerous glacial lakes, signatures of the recently (in geologic terms) receded great glacier only about 11,000 to 10,000 years ago. This particular example (and several other, connected one) are only nine miles South of our acreage. Another complex of glacial lakes are a bit less than than two miles to the North.
The complex to the south, as you see, were scraped out in a manner leaving some surrounding morain as now forested low “hills” ( as such gentle elevations are known hereabouts). The complex to the north (one of which is illustrated below) are more shallow with no residual marginal moraines, and so are simply open wetlands in an otherwise level tall-grass prairie... and are favored as breeding grounds for a wide variety of breeding migratory waterfowl.
Withal, a delightful and fascinating region in which to live and be conveniently “socially distanced” in this perilous time.

Egad! Just re-read the above! Sometimes my tendency toward verbosity flows forth unbidden. Please feel no guilt at ignoring most of it!
Best regards,
Dave

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ebrunner Loc: New Jersey Shore

The crop brings everything in closer,and , I think, it is a bit more impactful. I would go back and remove the vestiges of the foliage framing in the top left. As it is now, it is more of a distraction rather than en enhancement.
Erich