minniev wrote:
Very nice. I love images like this - simple, beautiful, peaceful, with little drama. Most of what I shoot is of this type (since drama is of a low order where I live). For me, some of these speak more to a Sense of Place than the highly dramatic ones do. You made good use of light, and went a bit further in the second version, but it isn't an image that requires drama, its magic is in the simplicity and the light and the color.
Thanks so much, Minnie. As a companion image, here was the view in the other direction (Mt Adams + moonset). I had a bit of an epiphany recently, after reading an article on authenticity - being true to yourself in your photography.
These are the scenes that make me happiest, and I'm curious about how others see the slick huge-wow-factor images so prevalent on 500px, and in magazines such as Outdoor Photographer, vs. the less dramatic or contemplative. I'm finding more and more that I am
impressed by those supposedly once-in-a-lifetime shots.