AlanLichty
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A fall scene along the Siuslaw River near Mapleton Oregon.
C&C always welcome.
C&C always welcome.
Scenes Along a River
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Leslie Hunter
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Nice colors.
Nice fall scene, too bad you were not on the other side of those rocks to get a more complete
AlanLichty
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Thanks - I was already in reach mode to get this one at 260mm. I did take one a little closer in (with my lens) but it still includes some of the foreground rocks. I opted to post this version to include the leaves lining the edge of the rocks at the bottom. Getting access to the river isn't easy and in this case I could only get this because the water is so low. Normally the rocks (including where I was standing) are under water.
Douglas Sherman
Staff
Nice composition, Alan.
Mike Lewis
Staff Member
Personally, I like the foreground rock element as it gives this a very nice layered effect, and contrasts with the band of color provided by the trees, with a stripe of dark water in between. Very nice, and no doubt a bit tricky to hold some detail in all those layers exposure-wise! The result is very pleasing to the eye.
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Nice work Alan. My first thought was like Ben, in wondering if you could get onto those foreground rocks to shoot. But Mike brings up a great point that the foreground rocks do look pretty cool. And if you hadn't said that this was a river, it actually looks like it was a small pond you are shooting.
AlanLichty
Moderator
I drove this road (OR36) last year heading to Florence to shoot Sweet Creek and the clumps of grass were the only things showing above the water. This is the main fork of the Siuslaw River and river access is not easy along this road. I could only shoot from the shore at this same pullout a year ago. This view from the middle of the river channel wasn't possible without a boat. I was eyeballing the foreground rocks but short of hip waders there was no way to get there.
I do have a bunch of similar scenes to this one with reflective pools in the back since I stopped at pretty much every place that had a pullout I could fit into and there were a number of places with exposed bedrock I could wander out to shoot from. Fall rains are moving in next week so chances are all of this will be under water again.