Cogswell

On Monday, we went to the Cogswell area. This is in the mountains, about 10 miles up route 39, which is Azusa Avenue. We left about 9 and spent about 3 hours there, recorded a 2.47 mile hike, and left. We got back about about 3 o'clock, so it was a day trip, the first one we've done since Covid19.

I wanted to do some photograph work and I remembered about 8 or 9 years ago doing a Palladium print of "the stream in the woods." Furthermore, I wanted to do an HDR of each print, that is, one with normal exposure, one with one stop down, and one with one stop up, with each subject.

Here is what I did with the first one:

It's a little bit tipped to the HDR side. I cropped it from the bottom so that there wouldn't be overexposed elements in the picture! Feel free to click on this image to enjoy a larger one.






Here's the second one:

The water is placid, with a plant to the left. Something is in the tree on the right, just above the far bank. I'm not sure what it is.








Here the third:

There is a nice foreground here. But I like the non-HDR better. It is in the next slot.











The fourth:

Very nice.