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Published: 2008-11-13 04:12:44 +0000 UTC; Views: 522; Favourites: 19; Downloads: 0
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Another example of how different our vegetation is.This is a flooded area. Not a swamp, really. It is pretty small, less than a block. Like a small wood in the middle of the fields. I had to ask my husband to stop the car and walk among high weeds (I was almost expecting a snake bite or a spider on my legs).
But I just HAD to have this photo
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Oh, thank you! Let me check !
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Nicely done, M! 
I know what you mean when you just 'have' to get a certain shot 
It looks like, according to your camera data time that this was shot around noon to 1 pm local time, so the sun is fairly high in the sky. This place will look vastly different in the late afternoon or early morning lighting wise. I'd love to see this shot sometime when the sunrise or sunset is really intensely colored--either one of those flaming red or gold sunsets, you know? The colors that would bring out would be ethereal!
I know sometimes it is just by chance that we find places to take shots. Like you and your husband driving along and you see this place. Go ahead and take the shot
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Hi, John !
This is a picture I took in August, before I was on DA. Indeed, the sun was shining strong, and regretfully that was the only possible angle. You should see what I had to do to come that close
Rain boots (or fisher boots!) would have been needed to trespass the fence and I would also have been afraid of something eating me (just kidding, but then again, this place didnยดt look very friendly to walk around, who knows if I could be swallowed by the swamp)
But I absolutely get what you mean. Reddish sun colors would have given this small place a very different look.
I need to keep in mind, in future, what you say about using different sun angles for my shots. I normally just take one. The same I am starting to experience with shutter speeds, I could experience with light.
I hope I will be able to go there some day, again.
And then we will really see if I learned something !
Thanks for the time you took to teach me. It is always VERY appreciated !!
Smiles,
M.
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and I TOTALLY understand about things lurking in the swamp that might eat you 
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Thank you so much... also for the 
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Mmm, summer.
The usual problem taking pictures in the sunshine is that the lightest parts 'burn' to the white, also the sky. It is just a bit too light, but it probably mirrors the day that was (:
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Indeed, it was a sunny day. There was a fence that I couldnยดt pass... I just leaned on it to take the shot. It was very flooded to the right or left... I should have had rain boots
If I ever go back, I will try to change the shutter speed, or select early morning (and put boots on!)
The comments and critiques help me see things I didnยดt think of, thank you SO much !! 
Smiles!
M.
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