Break Out – Late evening over the James River, VA, amid clouds from a passing cold front.
In a recent culling process I almost discarded this photo for being overexposed and washed out. It was bad, bad enough I didn’t initially notice the sun rays above and below the central cloud formation. Luckily something caught my eye and I kept it. With post processing it became what you see which is close to what I remember viewing at the time.
I was reading with interest a post by Gordon this morning concerning his endeavors in photography along a theme of selective focus and composition in photographs. I can’t say I love it or hate it. It’s not my particular “cup-of-tea” but I do find it very interesting and an opportunity to examine my own concepts and stretch my own boundaries. Gordon wrote:
For a while I’ve been bothered about copying or appropriating ideas from other places, thinking I needed original ideas, or new and novel concepts of my own. Over time I’ve come to realize that borrowing or being influenced is the way the world works.
I’m totally on board with this. I don’t believe one should have to reinvent the wheel, even in creativity. We grow from learning and gaining an understanding of how and what others have accomplished. We then add our own twist, ideas and concepts and it becomes ours to be perhaps later be borrowed by someone else.
The sun beams really add a sense of energy to the image. There is also a balance between the light and darkness; a very interesting image!