Water 03/15/ - 03/21 (Scott)

I was very excited to have Water as a theme since the weather is getting nicer here. I used it as an excuse to get out and explore Turkey Run park, on the VA side of the Potomac, just south of the American Legion bridge. The trail there follows the river, but also crosses over a number of smaller creeks with plenty of boulders, making for interesting water-photo opportunities. In the summer, you will also see plenty of wildlife, but i didn't spot any yesterday.

For my photo, I played with shutter speed - the slower speeds smooths out the water while a faster shutter captured the chaos and side-splashes of the water. The shot I ultimately choose focused the splash in a ray of sunlight, with a shutter speed not quite fast enough to freeze the pillar of water, so it smoothed out the background slightly, but fast enough to freeze the slower moving splash in the foreground.

The only post-processing I did on this was to try and lighten the shadows so that it will display on other monitors how it looks on mine.

I also wanted to post one of my favorite pictures which I also took at Turkey Run last April. This was just following the intense rains, so the potomac was gushing water at an incredible rate. For this photo, I adjusted the temperature and clarity as the river was brown with silt.