After the Storm

[Mike Landwehr]

This image was taken on the beach at Little Estero Lagoon after a mild storm in January of last year. It was a grab shot with the shortest focal length I had with me at the time, and I never intended to do anything with it until I was inspired by an image that Judy Howle posted to this forum. I'll take a little more time with setup and composition the next time I have a similar opportunity. For this image, I used NIK Color Efex Tonal Contrast, NIK Presharpening, Pixel Bender, and Topaz Adjust Heavy Pop Grunge. The image quality/sharpness suffered a bit during the upload, as the image is so busy I had to drop down to a JPEG quality of 6 to get the file size down to within the 256k maximum.

7D
70-200 f/2.8 II at 70 mm
1/250 @ f/4
ISO 200
Handheld

[Dennis Bishop]

This is quite amazing with all the color and textures -- natural and added, both. That primary diagonal is very effective. It's quite incredible that it happened and you deserve credit for capturing it. Thanks for sharing this with us.

[Cheryl Slechta]

Mike, isn't it amazing what a storm will bring up! I like the different filters you used on this and it is very interesting to look at. Nicely done

[Nancy Bell]

This must be amazing to look out at with a quality of 100! I totally love the chaos of the natural objects, their colors, shapes, & textures. Your choice and use of filters produced a great image. For some reason when I saw the curve of barnacles on the upper right edge it made me think of teeth and dentures ! Would also make a great jigsaw puzzle!

[denise ippolito]

Mike, I love this! The filtering adds some interest. I might evict the straight dark thing on the left side if it were mine-the rest of the "stuff" seems so cohesive. Great eye for this!

[Steve Adkins]

Wonderful work, Mike! I just love the complexity and color and details. For some reason it made me think of the poem... "The Walrus and The Carpenter"... those poor oysters.

[Maureen Allen]

Fascinating image. Lots to see. Very nice job with the filtering.

[Anita Bower]

Wonderful image. I love the sharpness, how each object seems to pop out of the image. Beautiful light and colors. Excellent processing. I'm amazed that all these objects work together. Good job.