Daisies At a Pond In Rowe. June 11, 2010
Posted by littlebangtheory in Art and Nature.Tags: daisies, getting my ass soaked in a downpour, hawk weed, pond, Rowe, tilt-shift photography
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Driving through Rowe after work yesterday (yeah, it’s kinda the long way home) I was slapped silly by a planar clump of daisies along the edge of a pond in Rowe. It’s the kind of scene which plays well through the eyes of a tilt-shift lens, a rarity in non-planar New England (the Coast excluded.)
On this occasion, under skies carpeted with heavy-bellied clouds, I slammed on the brakes and puled into a ditch to try and beat the rain. I threw The Unit together, camera and tripod and Elliot, ran across the road, bellied under the guard rail and set up hastily, tilting and shifting like a mad fool.
I didn’t make it. I got half-way through the set-up, excited about the common plain of the daisies and the snags in the beaver pond, before the skies opened up. I hunched over the camera, trying to protect the lens’ articulation from the onslaught, and took several bracketed shots at various f-stops, as the tilt function messes up the light meter in the worst way.
So here’s a gift from Elliot, my 24mm Canon TS-E II lens, an image of a pond in Rowe, Massachusetts, flanked by daisies and hawk weed:
This was a gawd-awfully rushed shot, and could have been rendered better; I may try again this weekend.
