Morning Meditation

[Doug L]

Canon XT camera, Olympus Zuiko 200mm F4 lens.

The low angle sunlight produced a silvery reflection off the duckweed which covered the corner of the lake. The resulting image had only traces of colour - green fringes on the reeds and patch of open water, and blue tones in the wing of the Wood Duck. I decided to get rid of the colour in photoshop, and also sharpened the image, adjusted the brightness and contrast, and did some severe cropping.

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Original image:
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[Iguanasan]

Cool shot... love the shadow.

[Bambi]

Cool shot... love the shadow.

me too! I love the abstractness of this.

[Mad Aussie]

He's doing his Tai Chi :)

[Wicked Dark]

I love it. The one foot was a great bonus. and a Zuiko 200 f4. Nice! Do you have any other Zuikos? I'm an Olympus shooter so am wicked partial to them.

[Doug L]

Do you have any other Zuikos? I'm an Olympus shooter so am wicked partial to them.

Thanks everyone for the comments.
I agree that some of the Zuiko lenses are great but the only other one I still use is a 50mm F1.8 that I reversed and mated it with a 135mm F3.5 Pentax screwmount which gives me a nice 3:1 macro lens for the really tiny stuff. I love the older F3.5 and F4 prime telephotos - most can be used wide open with minimal abberations and vignetting, and they were/are relatively inexpensive compared to faster lenses (which I would usually stop down to F4 anyway).

[Marko]

I like both shots for different reasons. Imo, the original shows off the 'meditation' better though.

[Doug L]

I can see your point - thanks. I may end up changing the title of the cropped image.