The light was too harsh for forest photography—until I noticed the intense and brilliant colorful of tree and sky reflections in the shade of a bridge.
Reflections of sunlit fall foliage and blue sky on shaded, shallow water. Clicking on the photo will take you to its location in the Corporate section of the Iris Arts website. See the video below for a bit more context. Photo: © Donald J. Rommes
The Little River in the DuPont State Forest in North Carolina flows down the escarpment of the Appalachians and drops in a series of lovely waterfalls. Between Bridal Veil Falls and High Falls is a flat, slow-moving, and shallow section of river that runs directly on rock.
A covered bridge crosses the river at that point, a mere 50 yards from the brink of the waterfall. It was another in a series of sunny days in the forest. The light was harsh on the sunlit trees, but in the wide shadow of the bridge, the light was more even. Bright reflections of the colorful foliage and the deep blue sky danced on the rippled water which in turn bent straight tree trunks into accordion-like shapes.
Brief video of rippled water with reflections under bridge.
Once I noticed the patterns in the shade, it was a matter of forming a pleasing composition. The resulting photograph is an abstract, but it might be more correctly called an abstraction.After all, it is a straight photograph of a real scene, with only some exaggeration of color saturation in post processing.
Second in a series of patterns seen reflected in the water in the shadow of a bridge. Clicking on the photo will take you to its location in the Corporate section of the Iris Arts website. Photo: © Donald J. Rommes
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