Birches on Walden Pond Metal Print

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Yes, there is a real Walden Pond and it is located in Wolverine, Michigan. On this November afternoon most of the colorful leaves have fallen but there is still the yellow of the turning tamarack trees and colorful grass.
Photographer's metadata: I was driving home from golf when I thought I saw a pond with birch trees through a bunch of other trees. I had a choice. I could turn around to check it out now or come back at a later date to explore. Deciding the time was now, I turned my car around, drove back, got out of my car, and tromped through the weeds to find this.

Through my photography, I share the things I see in the natural world around me. My photographic aim is to end up with a photograph I can share that looks like what I saw in my mind's eye and to have it appreciated by the viewer. To that end, I shoot in camera raw and develop it in my digital darkroom to achieve a high quality, realistic-looking photograph of what I viewed. Beyond that process, I sometimes take a photograph to an additional step by rendering it as an Impressionist might have painted it centuries ago or by giving it a 'dreamy' look through my own technique . . . it all depends upon the photograph in front of me and how I wish to present it. I feel there exists an immediacy in much of photography that does not exist in...