Fellows, thank you all for your good and helpful comments. I put this foto up on LuLa to get feedback from those I respect about an issue that I have been wrestling with for a long time. These southern wetlands are beautiful, indeed they're a sunset lovers paradise, but, they're dying off and disappearing at the rate of an acre an hour. Wanting to make a visual record of both the good and the bad, how do you photograph a beautiful place that is also a sad place? How do you portray beauty and tragedy together in a natural environment ?
One way I try, is to make the image b&w. And that helps some. But does having the solitary out-of-focus marsh plant convey a certain lonely sorrow, a certain "off-key element" that intrigues the viewer or does it simply irritate the viewer? I feel ambiguous (and a certain confusion along with it), just as Rajan, Arlen, Eric and BobB do.
How might the composition be different? The grass plant is much bigger than the sun, but in a way the plant is a main part of the account.
Thank you all again for looking.
Richard
Here's a National Geo article on the subject.
https://www.nationalgeographic.com/environment/article/no-state-is-losing-land-like-louisiana-but-no-other-state-has-a-bolder-plan
