Wednesday, February 2, 2011

Ice in black & white

Old Carpenter Road
Photograph by Tom Atwood
The temptation this morning was to shoot the ice in color, sun streaming through frozen branches against the deep blue sky. But I resisted temptation. Instead the morning after a disappointing "blizzard" here is in black & white. It adds some drama to the picture, and helps it avoid becoming too pretty, like a post card you might send to the National Weather Service with this message: What happened?
Shutter: 1/50; Aperture: f/22; ISO: 100; Focal length: 18 mm
p.s. does anyone else see the woman's eye peering through the branches in the upper left corner of this image?

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