a few of you might recognize this photo as a repost from earlier this week, where it topped a post i wrote under the heavy influence of remarkable amounts of codeine. and it wasn't that the resultant post was awful or anything, but i woke up the next day and had a quick read and decided it wasn't much of a unified front and gunned it temporarily for reediting. and that's sorta what i'm doing now, but really not really.

umm, yeah. so, today's picture: a preponderance of deep, foresty green in a scene is something neither of the digital cameras i've owned has been able to meter off reliably. come to think of it, i can only think of one camera, digital or otherwise, that i've ever had that could do lots of green without overexposing what in the photo is not so green, in this case some old pilings from a pier long since rotted away. quite often though, at least to my sensibilities, this inadvertent overexposure sorta works (recent examples here and here). in this case, it's overdetailed the trees and made a waifish subject of the pilings, making the image very surreal without photoshop touching it once. i did have to take the exposure down 0.3ev in raw development, and i punched the satch' up one and the contrast down one, but those are but the stuff of traveler's tales told 'round the hearthfire on rainy winter evenings.

i think it makes the trees look freaky-cool.

or something.