B&W
Nov 22nd, 2007 by Juha Ylitalo
This week’s theme on Thursday Challenge was ‘B&W (Black and White Things, Things with Little Color, B&W Photos,…)’. I often used black and white as a way to hide blownout areas of image. After going through my collection, I decided that I don’t want to use them and went after “things with little color” and came up with this week’s photograph. It was taken on last summer, I was on hiking trip and found part on river, which had pollen floating on a water.
More photographs from Karhunkierros (”Bear’s Ring”)
Technical information: Canon EOS 20D & Tokina AF 12-24mm f/4 AT-X Pro DX (24mm, 1/30s, f/5.6, ISO200)
It looks oily -oil in the water.
I doubt that its oil, because photograph was taken on June 2007 under Kiutaköngäs under relatively speaking low shutter speed (since water is flowing all the time). Kiutaköngäs is one of the big whitewater rapids in Oulanka National Park (Kuusamo, Finland). If there would be oil in Oulankajoki river, officials would probably be very interested to know about its origins.
Then again… even on swamp, you can sometimes find water holes, where the surface looks as if it would have oil in it. Its somehow related to the way how the ecosystem in swamps work.