Honorable Mention Advanced Monochrome, End of Year Competition - 2005-6 - Northern Virginia Photographic Society
3rd place, advanced monochrome prints, 9/20/05, Northern Virginia Photographic Society
I keep trying to improve on my infrareds of this gazebo. Finally got a bit of the small waterfall in the image which I think helps. Shot this at f/29; never closed down the aperture below 16 previously. Wanted the long-long exposure with the falling water - although the 2-3 seconds at my normal f/11 or f/16 probably would have been fine. Doesn't seem to have harmed the rest of the image - even with the resulting 10 second exposure time.
This hayfield is the scene I started out to get - http://www.pbase.com/ed_k/image/45601826 - but arrived about 10 minutes too late for the sunrise and got stuck with a bad sky. I asked for help choosing between these two. My wife, who chose the pine at big meadows for the 6/29 PAD - http://www.pbase.com/ed_k/image/45494241 - said that compositionally the hayfield was too similar to the pine and chose the infrared for variety.