I'm going to submit a whole story this week. I got up before the sun this morning to go hike a trail with several waterfalls. After all the "mundane" talk this week, I wanted to find a more dramatic, compelling subject and waterfalls usually fit the bill. This is sort of what I had in mind, although I was hoping for more water. I did try some portrait orientation, some with more foreground, etc. But overall none of them just jumped at me as a "photo with impact".
White Oak Canyon by Mark, on Flickr. This is an HDR merge of 5 images. The sun was too high by the time I got here and the shadows were pretty overpowering.
I got started late on my hike because I was distracted by this on the drive to the trail head:
low clouds by Mark, on Flickr. I stopped at 4 different overlooks for photos to the east and west, and finally started hiking about 2 hours too late.
Last night I was thinking of submitting this for my "best of the week":
mountain stream by Mark, on Flickr
But my wife talked me out of it when she said she liked this version better:
mountain stream by Mark, on Flickr. This is the uncropped version of the previous photo. That comment helped me decide to go hiking today to look for something better.
In the end, I keep coming back to one of my "mundane" subjects. This is one of the potted flowers my wife has growing on our deck and the photo was taken mid-week when I did my photo walk around the house. The color is almost unnatural, but it is a real flower, growing out of real dirt...
magenta by Mark, on Flickr
Nikon D810, 50mm f/1.4 @ f/4, 1/50", ISO 64
One of these is my best this week, I think, but I'm too tired from hiking to figure out which.
By the way, Deano - love the sunsets. Especially the first one.