City - Sugar Hollow State - VIRGINIA Country - United States
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"Water is sometimes sharp and sometimes strong, sometimes acid and sometimes bitter, sometimes sweet and sometimes thick or thin, sometimes it is seen bringing hurt or pestilence, sometime health-giving, sometimes poisonous. It suffers change into as many natures as are the different places through which it passes. And as the mirror changes with the colour of its subject, so it alters with the nature of the place, becoming noisome, laxative, astringent, sulfurous, salty, incarnadined, mournful, raging, angry, red, yellow, green, black, blue, greasy, fat or slim. Sometimes it starts a conflagration, sometimes it extinguishes one; is warm and is cold, carries away or sets down, hollows out or builds up, tears or establishes, fills or empties, raises itself or burrows down, speeds or is still; is the cause at times of life or death, or increase or privation, nourishes at times and at others does the contrary; at times has a tang, at times is without savor, sometimes submerging the valleys with great floods. In time and with water, everything changes" Leonardo da Vinci
Do all that you can do to help the people of Asia.
I find it so ironic that we can't live on a planet without water and yet it is capable of reeking such havoc and devastation. My hope is that this tragedy can somehow spark off world peace. Thanks Dottie for posting this image and words. Den
What an amazing image Dottie, it is fabulous. - how true are da Vinci's words are. From what we read in our papers, this tragedy has just about touched everybody's heart. Margaret
Thank you Becc. You're on. You let me know when you are up to those field trips. Looking forward to them. I'll keep you & your friend in my prayers. Thank you for the tremendous support you've been throughout this past year. God Speed. Dottie
Neutral Density filter, Dottie. It cuts down the amount of light entering the lens without actually altering the color. They come in several strengths ( I call them) like a 2x, 4x, 6x etc. Of course, the larger the number, the darker the filter and the less light. On this picture of yours, an 8x would probably have slowed the shutter time down enough to make the water beautiful! But I use them mostly with my film cameras, not the digital. I'm not sure I've tried it with my digital at all, although I have no reason to believe it wouldn't work. We'll have to get together one day. Right now is a bad time. My friend is just out of the hospital and I'm taking care of him. I don't suspect he'll be on this earth too much longer, so I'll do what I can do. But we'll do it one day. Take the whole day to roam around in the country. We can do one day here, and one day there..and so on and so forth lol.. Take care, my friend.
Happy New Year to you too Rebecca. I am planning trip to Sugar Hollow with my tripod, for just those shots you are describing. But waht is a nd filter? And I hope you do take that time for yourself, I know that we will be anxious to see the results. :) Dottie
Beautiful commentary and shot. The details are clear and crisp. This is one of those streams that if you have the time, and can set up a tripod and use a very slow shutter speed..you'd get that beautiful milky water. Unfortunately, I'm one of those who never have a tripod with me, nor a nd filter, nor time to do it. My New Years resolution will be to allow myself at least a certain number of hours to do JUST that. To TAKE the time. Happy New Year, Dottie.
Nice reminder, Dottie, and an apt "about"! My donation is in, and I sincerely hope everyone else is planning on doing the same. Our local Canadian Broadcasting Corporation station is having a telethon next week, which has become a national broadcast, so that should help as well. Your shot displays the sense of water very well, Dottie, well done! Dave.
A very nice sentiment Dottie. My wife runs the local post office here in Tywyn and we have an appeal going on at the moment. Hopefully every little bit helps and our heats go out to those in Asia.
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