I’m throwing this out to Mark Graf who writes about Picture Purgatory. The idea being that sometimes we negate images made long ago that deserve reconsideration. The image I’ve selected is one made on film with a previous Nikon system. I don’t recall what body I would have used (it may have been almost 10 years ago), but I remember that it was a Nikkor 400mm f3.5 with a TC 2x for a total of 800mm. This is a scene of a man with his dog (not a Great Blue Heron) at Lake Galena in Bucks County, PA. It is evening and I am isolating a silhouette against the reflections of sunset. This is one of my favorite techniques for simplifying an image and yet still have loads of color. I don’t typically work themes of people or their pets, but this was a situation where my visualization was too powerful to resist. I think I like this image more today than I did then. Thanks Mark for pushing me to explore the black box.
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