guilty with an explanation

i went for an early morning bike ride and brought my camera, but not a tripod... i really liked the reflection of the trees in the water, but couldn't manage to prop my camera up properly for a long exposure...

so i had to bump up the ISO and of course couldn't smooth out the water... so - i'm PRETENDING to take a picture of the rowers which is why i needed a higher shutter speed...

and then of course this would be better in colour, but the river was muddy-looking and nothing i did in post could cure that... hence black and white...

so... uhm... yeah... ;D

[Karen H]

I don't believe a word of it. ;)

[m9f9l]

That's your story..but are you stickin' to it? I think this makes a STUNNING b&w

[Kerri]

Beautiful b&w

[Raye]

Cool shot!

[Jay Holm]

I hate to find myself in need of a tripod in low light! You can't always carry one though. What ya gonna do? Yours was a great solution though and you got the shot!

[❀ Lynn]

This is wonderful.

[ GGG]

i love your work here, calm and there's too many points of interests.. great work!

:D

[Maggiemae]

Shows the delicate boat movement through the water beautifully! Bump up the ISO, eh?

[Mac]

Come on! Nirvana.

[Kd Wallis]

I like the processing on this! Very pretty!

[Celi]

a fabulous result for a "so . . . uhm . . . yeah."!! you managed to make this a beautiful photo.

[KWind]

I think it's beautiful. I love the tones and overall scene.

[Captured4Ever]

Yadda yadda yadda - Brilliant!

[Taffy]

@lbluejaye8
I love Laurie's comment! Perfect response...as this is a fantastic image if you look at it without preconceptions of what you'd had in mind!

[Aleksandra]

Very cool all the same. I think it works really well in b&w.

[Captured4Ever]

@taffy Thanks! That's what popped into my head - enough with the explanation, just let us be dazzled! :)

[amy spada]

Pretty but the rowers get lost in there. I would have left them out and gone for the simple reflection... which is really beautiful!

[amy spada]

Or taken it one second earlier to get the rowers in front of that black space...

[Sharon Lee]

Lovely reflections

[☯ Sarah ☁]

Great monotone :)

[Robic Upadhayay]

admire this pic!

[fife]

Great shot! Well done.

[Paul "Snapchap" Everest]

Hey! It looks good to me so stop overthinking things! ;o)

[Jani M]

lol cool thought process behind this picture :) Look on the bright side - you know now how & where & when to get that perfect shot.

[dh (delena)]

I love the story. It looks great in b&w and it needs the rowers. It's a bit different to your usual style.

[Rachel]

Great shot and whilst the obvious would be colour, the B&W works really well making the shot much more interesting and intriguing. Love it

[Jocasta]

The illusive perfect shot - this still looks pretty gorgeous to me

[Humphrey Hippo]

The reflection of the rowers I'm not looking at is lovely. :)

[Ingrid Budge]

Great reflections, I like the rowers though :)

[Katie]

I love explanations. Also rationalizations. :) Fairly smooth water already though, so I really think it works.

[☠northy]

@amyspada exactly... on both counts... but as @janim says - i now have an idea where there may be a decent photo op for long exposure :)

[Liane]

hmm... dunno what your talking about, this is awesome

[Peter de Graaff]

There is something idyllic about looking at rowing that i am not interested in doing though

[Kitti Nelson]

Fabulous tones and reflections

[PasadenaRose]

Excuses, excuses. ;-) LOL
It may not by what you desired, but it's still beautiful. I really like how the reflections of the trees could be mistaken for reflections of clouds.