The Way Out -- Catman by Olympus DSLR Challenge


11-JUN-2007	Catman

the Little River Between Surgar-Lands and Cades Cove

Olympus E-500 ,Olympus Zuiko 35mm f3.5 Macro
1/8s f/7.1 at 29.0mm iso100 full exif

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Richdow AKA Catman		20-Oct-2007 21:01
Oh you must have the color version I posted on PDReview a while back. This is a completely new version I took from the raw file, and reprocessed it to feel dark and dank. I tried to get pretty much the same feeling out of this version but I wanted to increase the felling of being in a dark place looking out. I am glad you like it enough to use as your wall paper. I may have also put it in an exhibition. Don’t remember ;o)

Carlo		20-Oct-2007 00:05
I've always enjoyed this photo. In fact, I have it as a desktop background. I like the way the stream flows through a tunnel of overhanging branches. Beautiful composition.

Geophoto		15-Oct-2007 21:39
Pictures like this make want to go out for a long walk.

Olympus DSLR Challenge		15-Oct-2007 18:54
If I ever get a chance to go through again, I am going to make sure to ask you for places to see. I am very glad the USA has the states it has. I cannot imagine what it would be like if it had fractured. Perhaps I am not enough of a historian to be bitter? To tell the truth - I am really hoping that the European Union idea really works out - setting a precedent for real globalization. brent

Richdow AKA Catman		15-Oct-2007 18:44
Brent, I live about an hour from this spot and I am retired and still can't find enough time see and photograph what I want. These mountains are magical, especially near dusk and in the morning. People who have lived here all their lives see images of the Rocky's and the Sierra's and think the Great Smoky's suck in comparison, and I have to show them the beauty of their own mountains. It is part of a mass inferiority complex of the people that goes way back to perhaps losing the War Between the States.

Olympus DSLR Challenge		15-Oct-2007 13:11
I spent a day once in the Smoky Mountains. I really fell in love - I have this deep yearning to go and really explore it. This picture really talks to me of the best of nature - It is really a wonderfully complicated shot - so much going on all the way back - and it has all those symbollic ties to rebirth and coming out of darkness - just very well done! brent

Miroslav Kral		14-Oct-2007 21:10
You was more lucky, than Me last Sunday. I intended to shot great whitewater in National Park Paklenica, but, lack of rain and specific terrain and climate, you guess, no water at all. It was nice trip anyway and some nice pictures are in collection now. I like your photo. Very contrasty but rich with tones and details.

Olympus DSLR Challenge		14-Oct-2007 19:18
A great pair of texture studies, so different and similar at the same time. At first, I've thought that they was a little too contrasted, but now I think that they works quite well as they are, centering the attention in the texture created by the ensemble, and not in the subject itself. endika

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