Portrait of a stone

[Steph_B]

Hi All,

I have been trying to get a decent pic of this stone since 1999! Once in a while, I return to this place and try my luck again.

This stone is part of the Meditation Garden of the VanDusen botanical garden in Vancouver. The stone is quite dark and under a thick canopy of fir trees. There are not too many camera positions which do not make the stone merge with the trees around .... or the trees merging with each others.

So there it is. After 5 years of shooting it, this is the best results I got so far (pathetic isn't it?).

Fuji Veliva 100F (top one) and 50 (bottom one). Nikon 24-85mm G-ED F16 (top one) and Nikon 70-300mm F5.6 (bottom one). Beside a UV filter, no other filters were used (this is rare for me!). I used a bit of fill flash in the top shot.

Comments, suggestions, feedbacks ... always welcome!

Cheers,

Steph.