Weather is a friend or foe to landscape photography, and unfortunately, it is unpredictable. The great light can happens anytime when you are not in the field, and the poor light can be your company when you are standing in front of a majestic landscape. It's all the matter of luck, unless you have time to chase for the light everyday in the field - unfortunately it is not the case for an amateur photographer like me.
This was the images taken at Goshen Pond in the Wharton State Forest, New Jersey last weekend. It's an hour drive and some hike and search, so I would really love to see the dramatic cloud and sky during the golden hour, and it would be also a nice scene when the fog invade the area (see the work from Richard Lewis, where he capture the Goshen Pond in a foggy morning). However, these ideal situation doesn't happen, so I was looking for the abstract shot, and I wanted to capture the icon of Goshen Pond which is the dead trees standing in the middle of the pond. I tried different ways to get it right, panning the camera horizontally and vertically, from different angle and perspective. After all, one works well, it is by panning the camera vertically on the reflection in the pond. Hurray!
The lesson is, if the light doesn't cooperate, don't give up, try other options, like abstract or black & white. Treat this as a good opportunities to train your creativity!
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