16 December 2005

Driftwood along the Missouri River, December 16, 2005

Driftwood along the Missouri River shoreline in Ponca State Park, December 2005. (Photo by Daniel Binkard)
On a cold December afternoon I went looking for driftwood, or anything else that worked in a riverside composition. There is plenty of texture to work with when you add snow and ice to the beach. Blowing sand adds its own look to the snow. The driftwood too has a lovely patina, not just bone-white branches. The composition is a fore-mid-aft arrangement, though I would like to have the foreground wood just a bit higher in the frame. The gap between it and the middle wood is a hair too much for clean eye flow.