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More Trees Down
Just like last month, I stepped outside onto my back deck, and there was something to shoot. Our house and the three adjacent ones together sat on about an acre of land with a great number of mature trees, about eight or ten on each lot. Two of the houses were torn down and replaced by maximal new houses, and ALL their trees were removed. Our house presently has two oaks, five tulip poplars, a cedar, two dogwoods, five new nursery shade trees, and three small evergreens I have let spring up. But stepping out a few days ago, the other small house that retained many trees had two very tall tulip poplars coming down. I don’t know why. I don’t know those people. But I shot a lot as a tree man worked his way down the tree. I got a couple of shots as he was making his cuts and the sawdust shot out from the cuts. I tried to catch the moment when a cut segment tilted over to start its fall to the ground, but never quite got it. Tulip poplars bud early, and you can see the buds in this shot.
I tried several preset conversions to monochrome, and I chose this one, which was called Infrared Effect. I rejected cropping slightly to show the top of the tree and the ropes because I preferred a close-up of the tree man and especially the sawdust spewing from his cut. I increased the contrast a little. Do you think I chose the right crop for a single shot? Anticipating your comments, I tried flipping this image left-right, but I did not like it. Perhaps that guarantees that some of you will like it flipped. Please tell me why, if you can articulate a reason. Thanks.