Backstage Kokoro
A "behind-the-scenes" look at selected images in my Kokoro project —
Content, photographic notes, EXIF data, creative process, miscellaneous commentary, and original digital captures. And now with additional audio comments about selected images!
From Kokoro #059 - Granite Home
This is from the valley floor in Yosemite, near the base of El Capitan. Yosemite is GRAND GRANITE on a toweing scale. It's iconic and breathtaking. But that's not the Yosemite I found most fascinating to photograph; too easy, too obvious. Instead, I looked for smaller compositions, ones that still emphasized the granite, but that weren't so overwhelming. Perhaps it's just me, but I most often prefer art that whispers, rather than art that SHOUTS.
Original digital capture (downsized for the web)
1/160 sec at f / 9.0, ISO 160, Panasonic DMC-G6, LUMIX G VARIO 35-100/F2.8, 56 mm
New! Additional audio comment about this image
This is from the valley floor in Yosemite, near the base of El Capitan. Yosemite is GRAND GRANITE on a toweing scale. It's iconic and breathtaking. But that's not the Yosemite I found most fascinating to photograph; too easy, too obvious. Instead, I looked for smaller compositions, ones that still emphasized the granite, but that weren't so overwhelming. Perhaps it's just me, but I most often prefer art that whispers, rather than art that SHOUTS.
Original digital capture (downsized for the web)
1/160 sec at f / 9.0, ISO 160, Panasonic DMC-G6, LUMIX G VARIO 35-100/F2.8, 56 mm
New! Additional audio comment about this image