Beauty is a form of genius - is higher, indeed, than genius, as it needs no explanation. It is of the great facts in the world like sunlight, or springtime, or the reflection in dark water of that silver shell we call the moon.- Oscar Wilde
Thus I present this portrait of the moonlit night off the beach of Evanston without comment.
Taken with a 35mm-70mm zoom lens set at about 50mm, 2-stop graduated neutral density filter. 300 seconds at f22, 100 ISO film. Click on picture to enlarge. Photograph © 2006 James Jordan.
7 comments:
Exquisite
nice job, great series...
Beautiful colors!
James - when you see the finished product for the first time, do you gasp at the beauty? Or do you already know what it looks like before you have it developed?
v., otilius and asmundr, thank you!
marion, you're welcome!
Cedar, I've done enough daytime photography to where I have a good idea what is going to show up in a print or on screen. These night shots were firsts for me, really. I knew what was possible and I hoped that the exposures I worked out would be reasonably close. So I was quite pleased when these came back from the photofinisher. A good sign was when the photo technician handed me my order and said that these were the coolest pictured she'd ever processed.
Ah, you make the lake look so mysterious.
fantastic shot…it draws one in and provides a calming feeling that one could continue onward and walk on water.
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