man & nature # 283 ~ words to picture (and live) by

An Adirondack backyard ~ Jay, NY • click to embiggen

Do not be caught by the sensational in nature, as a coarse red-faced sunset, a garrulous waterfall, or a fifteen thousand foot mountain... avoid prettiness - the word looks much like pettiness - and there is but little difference between them. ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson

Comments

[Frank]

Really like this shot

[Sven W]

Don't know if I'd want to live in that backyard ;-).

But I must say Mark, after reading your blog and looking at the work of better photographers (which includes you), I feel that I'm starting to move beyond photographing the "obvious".

[Paul Maxim]

Well, you said in our conversation that one of your objectives as a photographer was to make "edgy" images. This one's kind of like listening to fingernails on a chalkboard.:)

But maybe another Emerson quote says it best:

"The secret of ugliness consists not in irregularity, but in being uninteresting".

[Frank]

"...fingernails on a chalkboard..." Absoultely no way!