Walden PondI went back to Walden Pond to capture some images of early spring for the year long project I am doing on Thoreau and Walden. Unfortunately, I was too early for the spring flowering. There were only a few early buds around. I did, however, manage to pick up some shots of other life at the pond.
Thoreau was interested in detailed observations of life in the woods and pond and examined nature up close. I used a macro lens quite a bit to explore the close-up nature he would have seen and to capture some scenes he described in his journals.
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Just as I was leaving the pond these mallards obliged my by swimming out towards the middle. Their wake formed a composition echoing the shape of the reflection from the background shore in the pond. |
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I was shooting directly into a very hot sun for this photo. The pine cones in the foreground were in deep shadow. So I took 6 exposures at one stop intervals, and fused them later in post-processing. This resulted in full detail for the sun and the deep foreground shadows of the pine cones. Taken with a Nikon D800 and 18-35mm lens at f/22. |
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Thoreau specifically described looking through the clear water of the pond at life on the bottom, which is why I took this photo. |
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For this photo, I held a pine cone in my hand directly in front of the late afternoon sun and pond, and opened the aperture for shallow depth of field. I also over exposed the shot to enhance the flare, open the shadows, and emphasize the pastel colors. |
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This photo and the one below were of the few instances of new spring life I found in the woods. I put the camera directly on the ground and composed the scene using live view. This allowed me to position the leaf against the bright out of focus background. |
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I brought along this early edition of Thoreau's Walden book to photograph on the forest floor. |
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