Floating Leaves

I kind of wrote this one off as a failed experiment....  It was a shot of some fall aspen leaves floating in a puddle in the forest.  The exposure was quite long [about 5 seconds] and the focal length also long [500mm].  There was enough movement in the leaves drifting around in the breeze that they blurred out, while the reflection of the aspen trunk stayed relatively sharp.  Being a zone system practitioner, drawn to uber sharp images, this one just doesn't make the cut.  But nowadays there is so much photography being promoted as "fine art" and much of it is dreamy and soft and out for focus.  In the past, and to a large degree in the present, I write much of that shit off as the crap that it is.  But hell... maybe I should jump onto that bandwagon and try to promote my garbage as fine art too...!