El Nino and the Live Oak, Gainesville, Fl

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-- Larry Korhnak (lvk@gnv.ifas.ufl.edu), September 09, 1998

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Absolutely gorgeous picture, Larry.

I think the shoreline in the background is exactly the right height, just touching the bottom branches. The point at which the tree and its reflection meet are *just* above center and the shoreline brings brings the perceived center just a bit further above the center of the picture.

The most beautiful thing about this picture to me is the gradients from light to dark blue in the sky mirrored by a light to dark blue gradient on the water. Was that acheived with any filtration or did it look that way to your eye? Also, the brown line along the shore works well with the brown/gray of the tree trunk and moss.

It may just be my eye or this monitor but the Spanish Moss and foliage on the left side of the tree seem the tiniest bit out of focus.

-- Brent Hutto (BHutto@InfoAve.Net), September 09, 1998.


An interesting shot. I'd crop it in even tigher on the right and left side so that the eye is not drawn out of the photo on the left or the right by the horizon, but instead, up and down by the tree.

-- Paul Lenson (lenson@pci.on.ca), September 09, 1998.

It's beautiful. I have a question, though. Are there any hills in Florida??? The hills in the background: I don't remember there being any hills of that size in Florida anywhere. I haven't been to Gainesville, though.

-- James Tarquin (tarquin@erols.com), September 09, 1998.

The lighting dosn't stand out at all to me but the compostion is first class.

-- Tait Stangl (taits@usa.net), September 12, 1998.

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