Windy AM at Huntley Meadows

Bright and windy did not seem to matter too much in yesterdays stroll through Huntley Meadows park.

I walked the whole HighLine in New York on Friday.  I usually have been there early morning, but this time I was there around noon.  Thousands of tourists enjoying the weather and the sights.  The amount of new construction was staggering.  Here is a combo of the HighLine and the nearby construction.  I find I am enjoying the not straight landscape work. 

Angler's on the Potomac

 

I was thinking about Barbara's comments about the color on the Buzzard's point images.  I love the idea of toy like and wish that I had made the artistic decisions with that much forethought.  But, I don't!  I do set clarity and contrast at 15 for most of my landscapes and did so for these.  The edited version is first, the out of the camera second.   I also played with the black, white, shadows, highlights sliders to get the "look" I wanted.  I realize that all of that does impact saturation.  So I took the images back to "as shot" and here they are edited and as shot.  The "face" looks less saturated to my eye after the edit.  The others do look a little more color intense--but given the sun, they were pretty intense right in the camera.  Would really like to better understand all of this.  Oh, and another face--it is not that unusual to find in machinery! 

Grasses, trees, leaves

reminds me of cheesy ad for whole grain goodness...

reminds me of old looking English trees, venerable ancientness, lyrical twistiness

soon they sink

fresh landing

Sorry! Still puzzling about whether I have to pick

Kenilworth sun and shadow

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Kenilworth early morning

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