ku # 781-85 ~ dark and moody
Wednesday, July 21, 2010 at 02:46PM 
Golf course ~ Lake Placid Resort - in the Adirondack PARK • click to embiggen
Parking lot ~ Lake Placid - in the Adirondack PARK• click to embiggen
Tree, hedges, benches ~ Lake Placid - in the Adirondack PARK• click to embiggen
Hotel room view # 1 - Mirror Lake ~ Lake Placid - in the Adirondack PARK• click to embiggen
Hotel room view # 2 ~ Lake Placid - in the Adirondack PARK• click to embiggenThis past Monday and Tuesday I stayed in Lake Placid. The wife had a 3-day conference with a comp room so we turned it into a mini-getaway. Mini, as in, short. Mini, as in, 20 miles away from home.
On both days the weather was very changeable, to say the least. That made for some very interesting light and atmospheric conditions with which I had a number chance encounters ....
A photographer must be prepared to catch and hold on to those elements which give distinction to the subject or lend it atmosphere. They are often momentary, chance-sent things: a gleam of light on water, a trail of smoke from a passing train, a cat crossing a threshold, the shadows cast by a setting sun. Sometimes they are a matter of luck; the photographer could not expect or hope for them. Sometimes they are a matter of patience, waiting for an effect to be repeated that he has seen and lost or for one that he anticipates. Leaving out of question the deliberately posed or arranged photograph, it is usually some incidental detail that heightens the effect of a picture – stressing a pattern, deepening the sense of atmosphere. But the photographer must be able to recognize instantly such effects. ~ Bill Brandt
Reader Comments (3)
I appreciate these "dark and moody" images. Some people might find "dark and moody" to be disquieting, but it's another way to experience the outdoors / natural world.
A small group of us go bushwalking for a couple hours every Thursday evening (always the same trail). The rule is no torches. In summer there's plenty of light but in winter (which it is now in Oz) it's dusk when we start. Walking by moonlight or the city lights reflected from the clouds. If there is no moon and no clouds then it's "starlight" only.
Mark,
Sorry to have been away so long.
These photos are just what I love best! Dark and Moody!
Really liked "golf course".