WEEK 41: WOOD & WATER - The 2022 Trevor Carpenter Photo Challenge

There’s something about our natural world, especially wood and water that attracts me. I can spend countless hours in a forest or on my kayak simply enjoying nature. I had a totally different challenge in mind today but last night, while browsing some of my images, I just had to take this direction as so many of my photographs contain both elements.

The infrared image above was pretty much my most inspiring image for this challenge. A combination of natural wood, trees, and a man-made wooden structure, the dock. This is actually a scene I’ve photographed time and time again, yet I’m never quite happy with the end result, I’m just never able to capture the essence of the scene as I truly see on site.

This is actually a double whammy, a Wood Duck, a fallen tree, and water… Although my images are based on nature, this can also be a challenge inclined on creative skills, indoor studio work or just a few raindrops on a wooden deck…

In this 360 degree photosphere, a wooden bridge crossing a soon to be frozen river.

DEFINING YOUR CHALLENGE

This challenge is very open to artistic interpretation and genre. Your images can be traditional images, infrared or 360 photospheres just like they can be color, B&W or just about any processing in between.

Unlike our OUT OF YOUR COMFORT ZONE CHALLENGE, this challenge should encourage you to focus on your strengths to create an image that has two important elements, WOOD & WATER.

The friendly community guidelines are pretty simple:

Post one original photograph to our active community on our Facebook Group, Flickr Group or 500PX group (or all three). Tag the photo: #10thanniversaryphotochallenge #2018photochallenge #photochallenge #tempusaura
The shot should be a new shot you took this week, for the current weekly theme, not something from your back catalog or someone else’s image.
Don’t leave home without your camera. Participating in the 2018 Trevor Carpenter Photo Challenge is fun and easy.

The Halloween Photo Challenge is coming soon 🙂

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