fall in the Adirondacks

Hi Mark. While I like the reflections of the grasses as shown here, I think this might be one of those places you had to be to appreciate. From here the similar tones seem to run together and while, at times this can be appealing, I just don't find it does a lot for me here. I checked your website and think you have some very nice shots over there!

here is the Artist's Statement from my recently published monograph, "Tactile Revelations". Maybe it will help members understand what I am doing with my work. Understanding what mt intent is doesn't mean that the work will be appreciated, but it at least gives it a context.

"To my eye, the Adirondack Park is a vast assemblage of inimate vignettes comprised of color, light and texture. These elments serendipitously combine to create elegent tableaux that reveal the nature and spirit of this place. A nature and spirit that is defined, not by the grand panorama, but by the cumulative affecting impressions made by exposure to seemingly endless variations of indigenous minutia.

Visual stimuli, beauty and wonder abound in the spontaneous and subtle combinations of color, light and texture found in carefully constructed images of the forest floor, at the water's edge, and on its surface. Grasses, moss, lichen, rock, bark and detritus foster a delightful and tactile sense of the rich and diverse mileu of the "Forever Wild" forest preserve."

Here's a suggestion. Maybe memebers could be encouraged to to write artist statements about there work as a "motif". Would that be fun and informative.

It's a nice autumn scene. The colors here are very nice although I think they would be even better if it were overcast. For some reason, I wish that the nearest tree wasn't slightly clipped at the top.