call it habit
each previous incarnation of this blog has begun with “Big Stone Autumn”, and this one is no exception. photographed in early October, 2004, it was taken with a Nikon D100 and the Nikkor 80-400mm VR lens. the scene is just south of my parents’-in-law home on the South Dakota side of Big Stone Lake. “Big Stone Autumn” is one of my best-selling productions. Like all of my fine art prints, it is available online exclusively through Made In South Dakota.
after a major ice storm in 2005, one of the trees no longer exists, and several of the others lost large limbs. the colors in the original photograph were not quite what is seen here. i chose to retouch it using several of Nik Software’s Color Efex Pro 2.0 filters. the master file has several layers—a by-product of my penchant for low-contrast capture for digital manipulation.
all images on this blog link to copyright-protected higher-resolution previews hosted on our company’s website, the ShadowMoon Productions Base Camp. simply click on any image to see a larger preview, which you respectfully requested not to use. images available for licensing will be clearly marked.
