This image is a significant departure from two hackneyed aspects of photography.
One, shooting the picturesque but the usual. This image is from my beloved Sequoia national park, but is not about those Brobdingnagian trees. Try a google search with 'Sequoia national park' and you will be squashed with a million variation of the same thing: Sequoia trees. While I love those trees and would like to present them in an unique way some day (working on it!), but for now, let me leave you with a river scene from the park that intrigued me in broad daylight.
Two, talking about daylight, many photographers (including yours truly, sometimes) gripe about shooting in flat light of the high sun. The monotonous light, as all of you know, washes away intricacies and mischievous details of color and texture from a scene. These details, which conveniently emerge in soft low light of dawn/dusk, is the language that our subconscious understands the best and therefore is our dormant code to like an image. This image – after trial and error in post-processing for more than an year – is my attempt at rescuing those wily subliminal attributes from a scene shot in broad daylight.
Tell me, how did I do? Do you like any of these departures?
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