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Nikolai
May-11-2005, 10:10 PM
The famous Lone Cypress (Carmel, CA, May 2005):

http://nik.smugmug.com/photos/21875937-L.jpg
THE TOOTH
May-11-2005, 10:19 PM
That is a beautiful picture. Good find.
Mitchell
May-12-2005, 09:58 AM
Nice shot. I wonder if it would make a better "one" statement if you cropped out the trees on the left.

mitch
Nikolai
May-12-2005, 11:09 AM
Nice shot. I wonder if it would make a better "one" statement if you cropped out the trees on the left.

mitchThanks Mitch...
I played with it for a long time, trying various crops. Each time it looses something dear to the whole thing.:dunno
ginger_55
May-12-2005, 11:14 AM
Could you rent a helicopter and fly a bit to the right?

I think I have seen that tree before from the "air" angle, without trees.

Good shot!

g
digital faerie
May-12-2005, 06:27 PM
Nice shot. I wonder if it would make a better "one" statement if you cropped out the trees on the left.

mitch
holy cow, that's awesome! I think it's perfect for the challenge and a great shot. it might be my monitor (even though it's supposed to be calibrated) but maybe the sat could be upped a bit?? :dunno I know it was a difficult capture with the light being so flat and all, though.
DoctorIt
May-13-2005, 10:24 AM
Could you rent a helicopter and fly a bit to the right?
:rofl
Nikolai
May-13-2005, 10:47 AM
Could you rent a helicopter and fly a bit to the right?

I think I have seen that tree before from the "air" angle, without trees.

Good shot!

g
I'll definitely do it next time when I'm in carmel:-)
Thanks for watching!
Nikolai
May-13-2005, 10:50 AM
holy cow, that's awesome! I think it's perfect for the challenge and a great shot. it might be my monitor (even though it's supposed to be calibrated) but maybe the sat could be upped a bit?? :dunno I know it was a difficult capture with the light being so flat and all, though.
In fact, I played with this image for about an hour in CS2, trying crops, sats, etc. I decided on this one, becuase I thought that the gray rainy light brings more "loneliness" to the picture, hence more to the challenge..

Thank you for your comment!
Love your work!

Cheers!:1drink
Prezwoodz
May-13-2005, 11:26 AM
dont know if it was possible but i would think dropping down to the right and aiming more out towards the water would have made the tree more in a "one" zone :) Just me though! :thumb
Nikolai
May-13-2005, 10:42 PM
That is a beautiful picture. Good find.
I guess it was $7.50 well spent (the fee to enter 17-mile drive:-)

Cheers!:1drink
Nikolai
May-13-2005, 10:46 PM
dont know if it was possible but i would think dropping down to the right and aiming more out towards the water would have made the tree more in a "one" zone :) Just me though! :thumb
If I remember correctly there would be other trees on the right (you can see their branches coming into the frame already).
Any tighter crop would loose the rock bottom or the distant shore on the left which I deem kinda important.

I'm not saying it's not possible to take a better shot (it most likely is:-), but it was raining, Michiel and Sid was wating for me in SF, I was already tired after 3 days of constant shooting - so I only took a few shots on the subject, this one I think is the best of them..

Cheers!:1drink
digital faerie
May-14-2005, 07:13 AM
In fact, I played with this image for about an hour in CS2, trying crops, sats, etc. I decided on this one, becuase I thought that the gray rainy light brings more "loneliness" to the picture, hence more to the challenge..

Thank you for your comment!
Love your work!

Cheers!:1drink
the loneliness is an excellent point! :thumb
ginger_55
May-14-2005, 09:48 AM
dont know if it was possible but i would think dropping down to the right and aiming more out towards the water would have made the tree more in a "one" zone :) Just me though! :thumb
I can imagine what you would do to get THE shot, here.

Anyone who has not read his "near death" climbing experience should!

Unforgettable. A lack of true fear most often found in the young!

And there has to be a lack of fear, for steady hands, feet and thinking, or death is certain. Please, you all here, almost dying is most inconvenient. SFran and Sid would have been waiting a long time.

Good ideas, though, mtn climber.

ginger (65 yrs old) I have been up, and I have been down. Down is better right now.

He has a great post re his mtn experience. Has photos, too.