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mike_c

(36,281 posts)
Sat Sep 24, 2022, 12:17 AM Sep 2022

so I posted a couple weeks ago that I was taking a work trip...

...that I expected to be short on work and long on photography opportunities. Well, you know what they say about the best laid plans, lol. It turned into a real pain in the butt, with few chances to get my camera out. All I shot was half a dozen bristlecone pines on White Mtn in the Patriarch Grove of the Inyo National Forest on a rainy, solidly overcast day, with crappy, featureless light. I dug out the memory card this evening and here is the first image I edited. I hope you like it.

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so I posted a couple weeks ago that I was taking a work trip... (Original Post) mike_c Sep 2022 OP
Stunning. Powerful. MLAA Sep 2022 #1
Beautiful Tom Kitten Sep 2022 #2
Goodness. usonian Sep 2022 #3
thank you! mike_c Sep 2022 #4
Your original file is just plain astonishing! Incredible details jump out at me. CaliforniaPeggy Sep 2022 #5
thanks! mike_c Sep 2022 #7
This is incredible. Thank you. LoisB Sep 2022 #6
Striking. Nice job mike_c! George McGovern Sep 2022 #8
That is a wonderful shot! brer cat Sep 2022 #9
Evocative! applegrove Sep 2022 #10
Beaitiful image! Grumpy Old Guy Sep 2022 #11
Gorgeous of their kind, survivors among the rocks Hekate Sep 2022 #12
"Wow" sounds trite, but it was my first reaction Shipwack Sep 2022 #13
I'm gonna go with "Primordial"... GReedDiamond Sep 2022 #14

usonian

(9,815 posts)
3. Goodness.
Sat Sep 24, 2022, 12:48 AM
Sep 2022

I"ll bet that the light worked wonders with the subject. Is there a larger image available? Would love to see and know more.

CaliforniaPeggy

(149,640 posts)
5. Your original file is just plain astonishing! Incredible details jump out at me.
Sat Sep 24, 2022, 12:59 AM
Sep 2022

The one you posted is also astonishing, esp. when you consider the amount of compression that happens when you post something.

Shipwack

(2,164 posts)
13. "Wow" sounds trite, but it was my first reaction
Sat Sep 24, 2022, 02:41 AM
Sep 2022

Fantastic shot on both artistic and technical merits. Thank you for posting it.

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