This is one of my favorites. Walking in the woods in Umstead Park nearby one fall day, I noticed that the filtered sun from the west was illuminating the bottom of a stream in the woods. At the same time, as I refocused my eyes on the reflections of the surrounding trees and glimpses of the sky that illuminated their intricate surface textures in the rippling flow of water in the stream. I wondered if my camera would be able to focus on both at the same time? After some experimentation and "preview", I managed to get this photo ... and I was very pleased. Not only did I 'see' what most would see as the obvious - that of the 'body' of the woods, stream, and reflections, but in addition I feel the photo captured the 'soul' of the stream - that of its 'bed' otherwise overwhelmed by the beauty of the 'obvious'. Since then, I find myself looking deeper - for the less obvious in most all of my photo exploration. In a way, it has somehow ... "set me free".
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