From: mummm	Date: January 28th, 2007 08:44 am (UTC)		(Link)

You must find great peace in taking these lovely photographs. I know I do when I look at them.

	From: poetpaladin	Date: January 28th, 2007 08:59 am (UTC)		(Link)

Been enjoying your pictures, Ed, though I'm afraid I'd only add my voice to the chorus of "wonderfuls" and "breathtakings".

Thank you for sharing.

	From: kytty	Date: January 28th, 2007 09:03 am (UTC)		(Link)

I love this! The rushing water is a great contrast to the tree growing moss. Sort of an oxymoron in a photo :)

	From: kytty	Date: January 28th, 2007 09:27 pm (UTC)		(Link)

Congratulations! to you and Ilene on your new grandbaby :)

	From: yorkieboy	Date: January 28th, 2007 09:07 am (UTC)		(Link)

Okay - you have to STOP with all the beautiful photos now! ; )

I can only echo what kytty said: this is a wonderful contrast of processes. Looks like it was a very inspiring trip.

	From: lefin1	Date: January 28th, 2007 09:45 am (UTC)		(Link)

Uh oh. Looks like Kokopelli. Be careful. The last time I saw that it meant trouble.

	From: edbook	Date: January 28th, 2007 04:42 pm (UTC)		(Link)

Kokopelli? where?

'strange that someone would allude to something I was going to say in my post but didn't... I was standing at this spot making the photo and was shivered by a chill. It wasn't that cold out and I was dressed appropriately but after this imagemaking, I returned to my car and couldn't get warm--the rest of the day. It was the beginning of the symptoms of the flu that laid me low and am still recovering from an opportunistic infection that affected my leg.

Peace

	From: bareftinthesnow	Date: January 28th, 2007 07:32 pm (UTC)		(Link)

If I let my eyes lose focus, I see him in the trunk, facing left.

	From: lefin1	Date: January 28th, 2007 09:20 pm (UTC)		(Link)
	Kokopelli

Years ago, I took a Polaroid picture of a friend. He had a gray corduroy baseball hat on that kept looking like it was disappearing in the picture. Somehow, it was blending into the wall behind him. A few weeks later, he was shot in the head and died. After that, I became a firm believer in psychic photography.

A few months ago, atokon took a picture of some moss. I thought it looked like Kokopelli. A few weeks later, a windstorm hit and a tree fell over in his yard. The pictures he took of that tree looked strangely like the pictures he'd taken before. The tree didn't do any major damage, but it cost him some money to clean up. This was before that other BIG windstorm that knocked the power out for a week.

	From: ravengirl	Date: January 28th, 2007 09:55 am (UTC)		(Link)

THAT

is breathtakingly beautiful.

	From: marymoon	Date: January 28th, 2007 11:44 am (UTC)		(Link)

mmm the green is so delicious.

	From: aspartame_giant	Date: January 28th, 2007 01:48 pm (UTC)		(Link)

i've never been able to say this ed, but i think i see your photoshop selection! =]

looks great.

From: (Anonymous)	Date: January 28th, 2007 04:33 pm (UTC)		(Link)

how so?

Peace

	From: edbook	Date: January 28th, 2007 04:36 pm (UTC)		(Link)

opps, that was me--LJ must have logged me out last night.

Peace

	From: aspartame_giant	Date: January 28th, 2007 10:15 pm (UTC)		(Link)

it appears as though there was a selection made on either the background or the foreground. maybe not, but i kind of see a "green screen" effect separating them.

	From: edbook	Date: January 28th, 2007 11:55 pm (UTC)		(Link)

I think what you may be seeing is a fringe of light that happens along fuzzy edges exaggerated by somewhat oversharpening. I used a highPass filter to sharpen and although it doesn't display oversharpening the same as an unsharp mask does, it can be oversharpened as well... I don't question what you're seeing but don't see it myself. This image is made from two different exposures and I used a mask to blend them together.


Peace

	From: aspartame_giant	Date: January 29th, 2007 02:56 am (UTC)		(Link)

hmmm, maybe that's what i'm seeing. i see it mostly on the bottom edges of brances (the tops are fuzzy).. mostly on the bottom of that one that shoots out to the left.

anyway, looks great. this is maybe my favorite of the recent ones.

	From: edbook	Date: January 29th, 2007 03:05 am (UTC)		(Link)

'looking at that area earlier especially, I looked at both layers and found that the layer with the darker background had the 'glow' I darkened it a little but it glows catching ambient light anyway. Often in the rain forest, the bottom edges of branches are brighter than the top edges from being thinner and throwing mor light.

Peace