PHOTOGRAPH INFO

This photograph was taken tonight at Lake Nockamixon. It's been close to 90 degrees here for the last three days -- it doesn't feel like autumn, but the leaves are starting to change color anyway.

The water lily leaves were not my idea. :)

Post-processing: Shot with the Canon EOS 5D and the Canon EF 24-70mm f/2.8L lens at 24mm, ISO 400, f/2.8, shutter 1/500s. Curves adjustments and color balancing.

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--Kathleen

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hahaha! I love this. The look on his face screams "um, what are these doing here?"

P.S. those boots are amazing, now that i'm in New York I need to get myself something like those.

And if the idea wasn't yours, whose was it?

Hahaha it has a Hawaii feeling to me! :))

I've been around almost every day; Your autumn photos are amazing. Again.

I think this picture says...."Oh, I'm so comfortable with myself that I don't even mind being photographed for posterity with water lilies and yellow boots." I also like the green vs. brown duel going on in the background.

Dear Kathleen, I have been an avid fan of your work put up so beautifully here! I have been inspired by your lingering images to say the least. Best wishes for more such consistent and special work!
Cheers,Sriram

How come the leaves hanging on him? weird but funny :D

Love the yellow boots.

Michael George: It was his idea! :)

Welcome to NYC! The boots are made by Crocs - they're pretty easy to find these days, especially in New York. Have fun!

kheoh yee wei The leaves have very long stems - one is tucked behind his ear (you can see the stem sticking out behind his shoulder); the other stem is tucked in his t-shirt pocket. He's looking down at the stem that's tucked into his shirt to make sure it doesn't fall out.

Very cute and fun Kathleen.

Sigh they grow up so fast. I miss those days.

Feeling a little dizzy....seeing spots....very big green ones...and footwear seems to have a hue-sat issue...kind'a warm too.....Let's see Willow get three paragraphs of global philosophy out of this one!....watch out, banking with Crocs can get a little slippery!

Thank you both for the art with humor.

wow, i'm an avid fan since day one. seems like yesterday. travellin back on your old photos. he's grown. love his rainboots! :)

Awesome boots. Is he standing on a frozen river? It doesn't look like cold weather. Or is it just the ground?

"...beautiful,beautiful...
beautiful boy..."
(John Lennon)

Thanks for inspiring photos! Really great shots!

Sally Rhodes: He's standing in shallow water at the edge of a lake. It was 86 degrees when I took this shot on Thursday night - no ice in sight yet! :)

Excellent colour and lighting

Love the subtle, yet vibrant color!

Ok, the title here should be "Laddie Pad" or "Laddie of the Lake"! He will most surely want your hide if you show this to his girlfriend in about 10 years! Have mercy on the boy!

For David:

The EPA and HAZMAT will be all over Lake Isatoxin when they find out that untested specimens have been placed next to the skin of humans! The area will be cordoned off and anyone within 3 miles of the place will be placed in quarantine and their homes leveled. Samples of the lake water will surely be taken to a lab in California at the greatest expense to insure the safety of all the people within 17.5 square miles of the quarantined area. Tests will be run for traces of every chemical created by and known to mankind. Of course all the samples will then be placed in triple lined, sealed containers, placed on railroad cars and transported back across the country on the Nations dilapidated rail system and what barrels do not fall off the cars en route, to be found by the homeless that live in the abandoned line cabins and sold on e-bay, will be stored in an abandoned coal mine that is still burning less than 100 miles from here.

Then the Fish and Game Commission will have to test every creature that lives in or may have ever visited the lake. They will call in the National Guard who will detonate C4 in the water to kill all the fish and water creatures and then unlimber their M16 's and M60"s to shoot everything that moves in the surrounding woods. The remains will then be sifted and screened for toxic substances, excluding the lead freshly injected and including the pesticides recently ingested, and be shipped in private freighters to China to be turned into either fertilizer or dog food and be sold back to us at 10 times the cost!

The lake will then be drained into container trucks and the water used to irrigate the new flowers and trees planted along the roadways recently rebuilt after Hurricane Katrina and the sediment removed down to 50 feet to be transported on trucks over as many bridges as possible on the Nations highway system and be used as fill dirt at the newest taxpayer supported sports stadium complex.

The poor owner of the lake will be responsible for the entire cleanup. He will be sued by everyone in quarantine, who got the name of a really good personal injury attorney during an infomercial for Cialis. He will declare bankruptcy and be forced to sell to a developer who will seal off any further threat of dangerous chemicals by paving the entire area in 3 feet of concrete and turn the place into a water theme park making millions selling Orthene Orangeade, Radioactive Root Beer, Hazardous Hamburgers and Toxic Tacos to everyone that comes through the turnstiles.

And the findings, which were held up in all the Government's jurisdictional squabbling will finally be released 8 years later and come back as being inconclusive. Go figure!

Bravo Willow! I stand in awe, head bowed. You have outdone all previous attempts at spontaneous photo commentary.....EVER!

And Joni Mitchell has just the tune to go with it....so I respectfully submit "Big Yellow Taxi" for the sound track.

And re-thanks to Kathleen "and spotted crew" for creating the genesis of this mini-apocalypse.

Kathleen, has the EPA called yet?