I focus my attention so much on photographing living creatures that I feel somewhat helpless when it comes to taking landscape shots. How do you figure out what the main subjects is, assuming that there is a main subject? As a result, I tend to take simplified landscape shots, ones in which lines and shapes take on an almost abstract value.
The absence of color in a cloud-covered sky last Friday rendered the world even more simplified and monochromatic when I took this photograph at Occoquan Bay National Wildlife Refuge. Despite the tire tracks in the snow, I was definitely alone that morning, taking the road less traveled. It was that feeling that I tried to capture with this image.
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You nailed it!
I like it 🙂
It does indeed express what you were going for, Mike. I liked seeing what the landscape of this refuge is that you often visit. Happy trails to you….
I like the symmetry but love the literal added twist of the bending road at the lower center. Really nice!
I love “road less travelled” photos! Its challenging to take interesting photos on such a day but you’ve succeeded admirably Mike.. well done! 🙂 I love it!
Nice image, Mike. The eye is led and one wants to follow. 🙂
Abstract value are landscapes in a nutshell, and your photo is a good example. One way we learned to read landscape was by being shown many scenes in rapid succession and then draw them. They started at a minute and got down to 10 seconds – forces you to pare a scene down to a few lines or blocks.
Your beautiful photo is indeed a Robert Frost moment on “the one less traveled by”. I love it! Thank-you, Mr. Mike!
I like the curving tire tracks leading & bringing you into the image! Nice Mike!