Mussorsky's "Night On Bald Mountain" is one of the most recognizable pieces of classical music, due in no small part to its inclusion in Disney's
Fantasia. Like many people,
Fantasia served as my introduction to classical music and the Mussorsky piece remains a favorite to this day. In Oakland County of course we have our own Bald Mountain, although mine was a morning sojourn rather than a night one. It happened to be one of those perfect late Fall days - relatively mild temperatures and lots of sunshine. The one drawback, with the trees mostly bare, was a general lack of color. Working with this limitation I converted a couple of images to black and white, manipulating contrast and density levels in Photoshop to juice them up a bit. Being mid-morning the wildlife was out of sight, so the focus had to be on the surrounding landscape. In the end it was a pleasant but uneventful walk in the woods.
Mussorsky's "Night On Bald Mountain" is one of the most recognizable pieces of classical music, due in no small part to its inclusion in Disney's Fantasia. Like many people, Fantasia served as my introduction to classical music and the Mussorsky piece remains a favorite to this day. In Oakland County of course we have our own Bald Mountain, although mine was a morning sojourn rather than a night one. It happened to be one of those perfect late Fall days - relatively mild temperatures and lots of sunshine. The one drawback, with the trees mostly bare, was a general lack of color. Working with this limitation I converted a couple of images to black and white, manipulating contrast and density levels in Photoshop to juice them up a bit. Being mid-morning the wildlife was out of sight, so the focus had to be on the surrounding landscape. In the end it was a pleasant but uneventful walk in the woods.
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