Wallace Koopmans Artlog

This image more closely represents the reality of this birds life than if I took an image of it in a tree with a blurry background, obscuring it’s true environment.  There is nothing wrong with taking pictures of animals while creating a visual environment that we would wish for them, but it would be a mistake to think that that is the same thing as them having one.  We do virtually the same thing when we look at a scene even without a camera.  No one wants to admit that the road they are on exists while they look up at the mountain in front of them.

Some images from my hike along the Hayward Lake Reservoir trail.  There were lots of ravens in the trees always just out of sight, but seemingly keeping track of me.  The early morning coupled with the thick trees made for a very dark atmosphere but the morning sun breaking through the trees and lighting the moss is something I will never tire of.  It always amazes me to realize I live on the edge of such wilderness beauty and aside from a few other hikers you can enjoy the solitude undisturbed.

The bottom picture of the stream that has the tilt shift effect was processed in camera I was just playing around and thought I would include it.