Daily Photo - Day 23

Back to my usual trail today but I went farther than usual before turning around. I photographed more mushrooms (surprise) but was determined to [post something that was not fungus for the daily photo. I shot three views of this but made an amateur mistake with all three. One of my maxims, when I was teaching photography back in the days of film, was "A picture is worth a thousand words but all thousand words should be about the same thing". In other words, don't include anything that isn't necessary. In shooting this I tried to include all of the plants (including the Joe Pie Weed) that are reflected in the water. That necessitated including a waterfall that was some distance beyond. Too much stuff. It didn't work so this is rather severely cropped. I also converted it to B&W and played with the tones to make the green grasses stand out more against the rock. Now I have to remember my own advice when shooting future photos so I don't have to work so hard for the result I intended.

Daily Photo - Day 10

I set out for my daily walk/hike a bit earlier this morning and the sun was just hitting the treetops which were reflected in the river that was still in shade. At several points, the effect was to make the water lemon yellow  It was cooler this morning after the heavy rains and thunderstorms of last night but surprisingly the water wasn't any higher. Either it had already run off or the storms were localized and did not affect upstream areas.
Another reflection image from my hike this morning.