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Re: [OM] Site of the last self-propelled Zuikofest

Subject: Re: [OM] Site of the last self-propelled Zuikofest
From: Joel Wilcox <jfwilcox@xxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Wed, 25 Jan 2012 06:59:57 -0600
On Tue, Jan 24, 2012, at 09:36 PM, Moose wrote:
> On 1/24/2012 6:31 AM, Joel Wilcox wrote:
> 
> > This stuff makes it "just different":
> >
> > http://myweb.uiowa.edu/jfwilcox/IRNP/album/Rock%20Harbor/slides/_9055119.html
> >
> > I could not get a single photo that did justice to the impression when
> > one comes up on a whole area overtaken by old man's beard.
> 
> Areas like that aren't uncommon around the country, but uncommonly
> difficult to photograph well, at least for small 
> prints or the web.
> 
> I think it's the way our eyes work. With overall vision showing a wide
> area, and a narrow, moving spot of sharp focus, 
> our mind produces an apparent image of a wide area with lots of sharp
> detail. That 'look' is quite hard to recreate in 
> anything but a pretty large print.

That's what I think too.  I often close one eye to flatten the scene to
two dimensions.  That sometimes provides the proper jolt of reality as
to what a photograph is likely to turn out to be.  (I still tried a few
anyway ... seemed like there was always something wrong -- too much DOF,
or not enough, etc.)
 
> I recall stopping quickly and getting out to shoot this one, because it
> so impressed me. Lost, as usual with such 
> subjects, between a wider view and a closer one showing detail, I made
> this image that's not much of anything other than 
> a memory jogger.
> <http://galleries.moosemystic.net/Monterey%20-%20June%202006/Point%20Lobos/slides/_MG_0419.html>

I think it is still successful, just in another way.  At least you've
got a subject of interest in a kind of isolation.  But I'm sure it's not
the effect that impressed you.

> > I'm kind of glad we had almost entirely sunny days.  It has the feeling of 
> > a crypt and hauntings and dead sailors walking in out of the deep.
> 
> Could be worse, kudzu that wraps you up in the sea of green before you
> can get out. :-)

Kudzu, tragic as it is, is banal by comparison:

http://a7.sphotos.ak.fbcdn.net/hphotos-ak-snc6/198795_1906625826303_1261510733_31664688_3164852_n.jpg

(I wonder if that link will work.  It's seems to be harder than it used
to be to link to individual photos in Facebag.)

You and Carol might really enjoy Isle Royale.  One can be as strenuous
or leisurely as the spirit moves.  Just hanging around Rock Harbor,
which has a good lodge and nice restaurant, is pleasant with infinite
nooks and crannies of rock, foliage, and water.  I heard or read
somewhere that the average tourist spends 40 minutes at the Grand Canyon
and 4 days on Isle Royale.

Not trying to sell it.  The boat ride there can be dicey for the
tum-tum.  Superior was pacific when we went in 2006.  But my brother
tossed his waffles the entire voyage when he went a number of years
before.

Joel W.

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