Faded Pathway

[JimFox]

A path leading down to one of the ponds at Riverbend Ponds Natural Area in Ft Collins, Colorado. You know I love paths, so when i saw this I was hoping I could make it work as a photo. The problem was the ground area looked way past peak fall, very dead with little color. Even though the cottonwoods in the background had color still, it was the foreground that I wanted to work with.

So this one I lowered the saturation by about 60%, to just let a little color come through, but to hopefully give it a faded and desolate feel.

This was taken with the 35mm f1.4 Samyang manual focus lens I was testing out. It's at f11 in this one.

All comments are welcome,

Jim

 

[AlanLichty]

Feels like a scene that is ready for winter to arrive. The dark clouds add to that mood. Just barely enough color to let us know its not B&W

 

[Ben Egbert]

I like the grasses even when they are dead, as long as they are standing. But your treatment is working.

 

[JimFox]

Feels like a scene that is ready for winter to arrive. The dark clouds add to that mood. Just barely enough color to let us know its not B&W

I like that, yeah it does harken to winter coming soon. Which makes sense as there has been some snow, it's supposed to snow on Thursday. The lows have been down to 12 degrees, the last 2 days I went running it was right at 32 degrees.