A Local Background

Greetings, Fellow Foreground Planters — Background Hunters!

How has your week been? Mine was quite not time-allowing so...

I am going back in time a month or so ago to where times were less timely but more...timeous.

It was on a Saturday, I don't remember which one. I was shooting some baskets at the court inside a school yard not far from my den. Alone, of course. Nobody else does such things in such wintery times, now, do they? You know why? Because, them kids, they can do it any time they want. Almost. They don't know what they got. Till it's gone. Of course.

Anyway.

A friend rang and invited me to a picnic they were having with his son up on the hill above our town. It was quite windy when I got there.

But that wind...it cleared the view from up high on the hill.

Quite visible the distance, all the way to the mountain range north of us.

Camera Settings:

Aperture F 4; Shutter Speed 1/1250 of a second; Light Sensitivity ISO 100; Focal Length 200 mm.

Camera Model:

Canon EOS 30D with a 70-200 4 L zoom lens.

Let me throw a couple of other versions of the same image here:

With a time-shift-ish blur effect.

A black-and-white version with high contrast.

In this one, the Black-and-White version, you can probably better see the visual sense of rhythm that is a rarely spoken-of component of composition. It's the alternating of dark and light areas within a frame, either vertically, or in this case, horizontally.

Peace and Inspiration!

Yours,

Manol