Goodness me, that really shows how absolutely enormous it is!

Awesome :)

absolutely stunning comparison

That's quite a stump! Just imagine that, repeated thousands and thousands of times over. An amazing amount of logging was done in this country. It boggles the mind!

Great perspective in this capture. Amazing capture my friend. God bless.

Superb.... great lighting and this really gives the sense of this stumps size... AMAZING

hope he did not take any insects home! got to be full of them. very good capture

Holy cow, what a stump!

Superb light...the stump certainly grabs one at first, but your blasting light behind and around him ultimately make this shot shout for joy. He stands triumphantly, the stump is his grand, earthly support, and all around him is this mass of blasting yellows, greens and reddish browns. The trunks have been partially dissolved in the light, so the forest has a graphic, almost dreamlike quality. And it envelops Eligh like a divine edict or ancient pronouncements of the emergence of the hero, a celebration of humanness in the midst of looming nature. Terrific light and saturation. And Eligh looks triumphal, even though he's casual and relaxed as ever. To me, we feel you celebrating him, even if he is just being Eligh...a wonderful shot.

(ok, one more thought, since I'm speaking of light and saturation...those recent shots you've seen of mine were 2 or 3 years old, and the postworks were mostly done back then, though I add touches to them whenever I post them. I posted more 'traditional' photography for so long, because I was working very hard to do less postwork and concentrate on the camera more, so I could feel at home with the camera. So when I saturated, played with the light, etc, I felt myself losing the camera shot, and not learning enough from it. Remember, those were my first days with a brand new instrument, which I used only a few days out of each month...an instrument, by comparison, that you'd been conversant with for a lot longer. (Ditto denise, tara, priska, etc.) It was, in fact, photographers like you who inspired me to post pics like that, by your examples. I still have mixed feelings about my saturated work, but from the responses I got, I feel better about it. (And I know you do much more than saturation; I'm just mentioning it in this context...) For me, it's taken guts, because I've only recently begun to feel at home with the camera, unlike you and several others. (I was at home with Photoshop---as I'd used it in graphic work before---but when I used it for photography, I had to learn a lot of new techniques.) Some people are surprised that I haven't taken a new shot in almost 2 years (for the most part): I'd love to be as at home with the camera as you are. You paint and compose symphonic works with the camera. For me, it's been like a violin, when one has played piano all their lives. I'm getting used to the fingering, the stance, all of it...)

Anyway, a wonderful shot that I didn't want to leave un-commented; terrific use of light; and, for one who, at your own admittance, doesn't do a lot of people photography, this is a terrific people shot. It exudes your love for Eligh in every square inch...