The other day I wandered around the very dry wetlands in the Central Perkiomen Park behind my house with no particular intent. I found a lot of shadows, which are reproduced here a lot darker than they actually were. Except for the last, these are all five-exposure, handheld HDR images. The animals (you may need to embiggen the images to see them) were inserted with generative fill. The final image is a composite where there was enough camera motion that I could not quite get them to line up so I arranged them, yellow-boxed them then surrounded the assemblage with content-aware fill because generative fill did not work well on this.
Hi Andrew. I thought I had responded to this earlier but perhaps I just pushed to one side awaiting a better time to do so.
I enjoy your creativity and pushing the boundaries to add new ideas. I did indeed have to enlarge the images and find those hidden animals. I think your forcing the viewing to search is relative to the nature of........ well nature!
Do you get snow in your neck of the woods (excuse the pun)? I think some of these may stand out with the bare tree limbs set against a white backdrop.
Sorry to hear about the Ash trees. We are being hit in Vermont also, with many of the trees being cut down as a precautionary measure. I have one in my front yard that I've just paid $150 to have inoculated against the Emarald Ash Borer - it's supposed to last 2 years, so we'll see how that goes.
Say hello to Harry for us. He hasn't appeared in any of your walkabout photos recently, so I hope the old guy's doing OK.
Our daughter has a new apartment in Philadelphia and I am thinking of gifting her a very large print to hang on her nearly blank living room wall for Christmas. This was in mind when I worked on these. Getting the scale right was important so the animals could not appear closer to the camera than would be realistic.