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Leaves that had not fallen from the tree in late autumn, found while hiking through the Gorge Metro Park as the sun was behind them.Featured here [link]
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This is an amazing shot.
I think the lighting is one of the best things about this piece, especially with the flare and the way it shines onto the main subject matter there.. or rather, the way it enhances some parts but not others, leaving them in shadow to provide the contrast and contribute more depth to the atmosphere overall.
The background is fantastic as well, especially with the bokeh filling up the frame. I like the positioning, although I do feel as if you could have moved the camera higher, perhaps?
Other than that, it's not too bad...The point of view is great and... yeah, it doesn't feel natural. o.O
I suppose you could crop this into a square and rotate it, have a play with it and all, but it's a good piece regardless.
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I appreciate the comment, although I have to say that by the end I was a little confused as to whether you liked it. I am thinking that you thought, overall, that it was okay. I appreciate that you took the time to comment though.
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Nothing Gold Can Stay
by Robert Frost
Nature's first green is gold,
Her hardest hue to hold.
Her early leaf's a flower;
But only so an hour.
Then leaf subsides to leaf.
So Eden sank to grief,
So dawn goes down to day.
Nothing gold can stay.
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Thank you so much! He was always one of my favorite poets!
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We went to Borders today and I saw they had a book of The 100 best poems, and Stopping by the Woods on a Snowy evening was in it. I always enjoyed his poetry a lot. Death of the Hired Man was always one of my favorites.
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the lines...
Part of a moon was filling down the west, dragging the whole sky with it to the hills. Its light poured softly in her lap. She saw and spread her apron to it. She put out her hand among the harp-like morning-glory strings, taut with the dew from garden bed to eaves, as if she played unheard the tenderness that wrought on him beside her in the night. "Warren," she said, "he has come home to die: You needn't be afraid, he'll leave you this time." "Home," he mocked gently. "Yes, what else but home? It all depends on what you mean by home. Of course he's nothing to us, any more then was the hound that came a stranger to us out of the woods, worn out upon the trail." "Home is the place where, when you have to go there, they have to take you in."... Always make me tear up
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Didn't he have a way of making the orinary special? I have never been a big reader of poetry, but there are some poems that just really stand out. I was thinking about your comments and wondered if you have read Annie Dillard at all? I had always strived for that kind of feeling in my photo's, taking the ordinary and everyday and celebrating it, or seeing the beuaty in it.
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that's one of my stress relievers,I browse
the internet for poetry...I've never actually
read any of her books,but I have read some very
good quotes from her,she seems to be able to put
life into perspective....
"The dedicated life is the life worth living.
You must give with your whole heart."~Annie Dillard
I think you have done well then with your photography,
there is nothing more ordinary than coffee items and
you turn them into works of art...."the only thing between
the ordinary and the extraordinary is that little something
extra" (don't have a clue who first said that) but it's true!
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Oh, well that is very kind of you to say. I feel sometimes like I have let some of that slip away, but I try to keep that in mind. I think that when I am able to I am happier with the results. I was a poor college student and over a winter break bought Annie Dillards book, Teaching A Stone To Talk and just fell in love with it. She has a way of capturing life as it is.
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enjoy your work and it shows you put a lot of thought
in it!I will have to buy that book,I've seen it but never
read it,and I know it's quoted quite often!
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I was lucky, I found mine on the cheap rack at a Waldenbooks. I think I paid $1 or $2 for it.
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That's cool,I always check out the bargain books
at Borders and Barnes and Noble!!
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For a while I was collecting authors first books from the cheap bins. I found several that were wonderful, but never saw a second book come out.
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