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July 10, 2010. San Gregorio Bluffs, San Mateo County, California — and last night in my office.
This is an impossibly small crop of a much larger frame — a starting point for an imaginary stroll on walkable water.
I was going to post this last night, but it wasn’t ready. This is a picture where every nuance counts. An adjustment of just one click plus or minus in vibrancy or color balance or layer blending made a visible difference. Everything is poised on the head of a pin. Had to sleep on it. Glad I did. A few changes in the morning finally resulted in a smile for both me and the Muse.
(Canon G5X II. RAW processing and initial editing in DxO PhotoLab 3.3; Final editing in Adobe Photoshop.)
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Very nice light! Love this shot! 😀
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Thank you very much.
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The sort Jesus walked upon.
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Just so.
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As we were saying, the beauty of razor sharp lines on soft background… sigh! 😉
Happy Monday, my friend [and week ahead!]
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Thank you very much. That aesthetic has appealed to me for an extremely long time. See my second blog post ever: https://amagablog.com/2018/11/15/line-and-form/
Have a wonderful week.
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Doesn’t surprise me! …and another sigh! 🙂
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….so ethereal–there, yet almost not….moonkissed
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Thank you very much. You are not only a wonderful watercolorist but also a poet.
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…..I’m touched by that, Michael. Your camera is your pen, your brush.
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Thank you. And I’m touched by that.
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I wouldn’t have known this is a very small crop of a much larger image. That seems to imply you saw the scene pretty differently at the time you took the picture.
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In most images you can’t get away with a crop the small but since the only detail is simply a straight line I managed to fool physics and get away with it. As far as what I saw when I originally took the picture: yes and no. I didn’t have the focal length to get just a line at the time. But if I had, it still would’ve been a wider view than this. I find myself increasing in boldness in what I am willing to try. Pushing myself. This is good.
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“…a starting point for an imaginary stroll on walkable water.” Nice! And we would just keep going. 🙂
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Thank you. And yes, we would just keep going…
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Perfection.
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Wow. What a great study in hues. All perfected by a thin glint.
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Thank you. Turns out that something this simple takes an amazing amount of effort.
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Most everything worthwhile does.
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Beautiful. And yes, its often better to leave an image alone, and then return to it with fresh eyes. And love “walkable water”! 🙂
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The nice thing about walkable water is how far you can go.
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Yes, as long as its horizontally! 🙂
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Definitely
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Really lovely colors and shimmer. 🙂
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And I see I’m commenting a second time – well, seeing it again is pleasant! 😉
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The more the merrier, I always say! Thank you again.
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Thank you. I especially like the color blue. In case no one ever noticed… 😉
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I think there are a few of us out there who especially like the color blue. 🙂 I still remember seeing the painted wall of a building beside a parking lot in downtown Syracuse when I was maybe 8 years old. It was this brilliant, deep blue – very much like Yves Klein blue. It made me happy and it really stuck with me.
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I’ve had similar experiences. And your name, of course…By the way, Syracuse? Is that where you are from originally? I’m originally from Geneva.
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We moved 3 times so I grew up in 4 places, but what made it easier was that the moves were in harmony with my schooling, so to speak. Syracuse was grade school – K – 5. Then another upstate town close to Buffalo for 2 years, & suburban NJ for high school. I couldn’t wait to escape to NYC, which I loved since first seeing it at age 5. When did you move West? Was college on the west coast or on the east?
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Moved west when I was two months into the seventh grade. Severe culture shock from Geneva New York to the San Francisco Bay area. 🤪 College was on the West Coast. Stockton California. The armpit of California. Where in suburban New Jersey did you go to high school?
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We lived in a small bedroom community called Mountain Lakes, mid-northern NJ, near Boonton/Parsippany. I didn’t like it at all – I found the people to be very uptight and insular. But education-wise it was a good place. Oh, I can imagine the transition from NY to the Bay Area must have been intense, especially at that age. It’s good to have experienced both coasts though, right?
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Very definitely good to have experienced both coasts. My wife grew up in Westfield, not very far from where you were.
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