Continuing my theme of not photographing the falls…
There is a long pergola at Minnehaha Falls Regional Park. It was just screaming out for the black and white treatment. Of course, we had to work around the people who would frequently walk under it. People are great at ruining a good photo op. Fortunately, it wasn’t too busy on a Saturday morning and I was able to get a few keepers. Here’s three of them.
I tried a number of different black and white conversion filters on each of the images, using Silver Efex. Interestingly, I ended up using a different filter for each image. Don’t ask me which ones, I didn’t keep track. The light was great and the pergola made amazing shadows along the ground. As usual, I didn’t quite get exactly the image I wanted. That’s pretty much par for the course, though.
Don’t get me wrong, I’m not unhappy with the results. I just felt like I could have done better. It’s been hard to keep up with photo processing and blogging, now that we have Ripley. I never would have imagined that a kitten could occupy so much of our time. I’m hoping/assuming it will get better once he gets older. I’ve gotten very spoiled about having a lot of free time since I retired.