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Looking for an image that caught my interest this morning, I decided to take another look at some of my experimentation with the first Fujifilm camera that I have owned. The Fujifilm X-T1 was my first acquisition with the intent to have a somewhat light camera for travel photography. Of course, once I started using it, there was no way that I’d stop using it!

Here’s the image for this morning…

Walking along the shore of the Nashua river, as it flows through the Oxbow National Wildlife Refuge, I couldn’t help but notice the lovely colors of the trees on the opposite bank. Combined with the stillness of the water surface, this made for a lovely upside-down worldview.

And, yes, I took a look at this view flipped…

I have my preference for the version that I like best. I’m curious to hear what yours is.

I have always felt that experimentation is a key part of my photographic journey, as it opens up the possibility of creating images beyond the direct observation of the physical and into that of our mind’s eye. Part of these discoveries go into the realm of abstract imagery.

I would like to share one of these images from about 8 years ago…

The technique to create this image is pretty straightforward in that I used a bit of linear movement with a 1/6 second exposure. As I wanted to preserve the directionality of the trees, I kept the motion along the same lines presented by those same trees. With a bit of experimentation the diagonal that is near the bottom of the image was preserved, allowing the lower right hand to almost create its own separate space in both color and shapes.

The juxtaposition of the yellows of the leaves and the blue, green and dark orange in the lower section provides a pleasing interplay, giving the eye an opportunity to discover more in the overall presentation.

On the technical details, I shot this with a Fujifilm X-T1, at f/10 to get the aperture to the 1/6 second mentioned earlier.