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Equinox

March 20, 2016

Salt Spring Equinox

On this first day of Spring, I was looking for an equinox image for our pals at National Geographic. And somehow I ended back at my new favourite Salt Spring Island mountain stream. In the rain this time.

I had expected there to be more flow in the stream, after seeing the torrent nine days ago. And I didn’t expect to see any of the iridescent green moss left either. I like the new cleaned-up, wet look and I think this it the best image yet. It seems more alive and vibrant.

Sometimes you need to work at a photograph until you get it right. Now I’m wondering what it might look like in moonlight or after a decent snow…

Any thoughts?

Filed Under: Art, Looking Back, Mountain, Nature, Photog's Favourites, View Tagged With: 645, colour, forest, green, hike, long exposure, spring, trees, water

Comments

  1. Tamar Griggs says

    March 21, 2016 at 6:34 am

    Hi John.

    This is funny. When I looked at your image, I thought surely you Photo-Shopped out the debris in this river. And you say it was wiped “clean” naturally. WOW! Great image.

  2. John Cameron says

    March 21, 2016 at 7:09 am

    Thanks Tamar. Yes,while wiping out some moss, the runoff moved things as large as a log. It’s never ‘perfect’ of course and the original, 8000+ pixels across still reveals some minor bits. But they’re not seen at web size.

  3. Christopher J Abbott says

    March 21, 2016 at 10:08 pm

    Spectacular !

    • John Cameron says

      March 22, 2016 at 6:02 am

      Thanks!

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