From now on when I set out on a "photo mission" I am only going to arm myself with a "vision" and not a "plan". We had a pretty busy day today, I found it getting towards dusk and still no PaD. I grabbed the gear (including the tridpod) and walked down to the river (our association has a common area on the river) to take some shots of the river. I had these elaborate river/water shots in mind with trees and various aquatic, aviary, and topiary subjects. Nothing was really working, as I was walking around to get a better view of a branch across the river, I noticed this bobber in the tree (which could belong to one of my children) and tried capturing it. The light was failing, I was on a tripod and shooting ISO 100, so I had a rather slow shutter speed. There was a bit of a wind and so I wound up with quite a few throw away shots. This one slipped in just before I bumped the ISO up to 800 to get a slightly faster shutter speed. The higher ISO shots just didn't do it for me, this one did though. A simple view of this image totally desaturated gave me the idea for selective coloring. I used Lightroom 2.x with a selective adjustment. Pretty much the entire image is desaturated, save for the red in the bobber. Should some very affluent curator of fine arts wish to spend gobs of money on this, I can do a much better job at the selective coloring in Photoshop. Since I don't see that happening, this works just fine.
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