2005-12-30 #3

The recommended maximum exposure time for NPS is 2 seconds. This is 6 minutes.

This image seems to do not belong to this world. Great photo.

Surreal. The water looks like it is floating.

Reminds me of the landscapes described in Dan Simmons's Hyperion. This is really something. Hypnotic. Love it!

Leigh, what a beauty! your long exposures are doing wonders to the series. The peace and light it radiate are spot on!! no less is the composition and colors. Happy new year! Pnina

Leigh, This is fantastics! I'm sure the original scanned file is much better with detail etc too.

 

Color is much different than much of your work but it works really well.

 

Congrats!

Leigh, this one is wonderfully composed, beautiful wet rock just close enough and the cold colors are ale interesting... IMO this is the best of the day series.

 

Jiri

 

P.S.: Happy new year to you...

Simplicity and perfection. Doesn't need too many things for a good photo.

Leigh, this is the one that takes what you have been going for in your recent work up another level. This is about as good as it gets. It feels very ethereal and coolly cerebral. This is among your best work Leigh...

 

My wishes for a New Year of great images...

Great colors, good composition, great detail, making a very good atmosphere.

i love this picture. gives me such a feeling of peace and tranquility. would love to hang it on my wall and look at it every day.

Leigh, I saw your later "thirds" version first. I like this version even more. (Actually, I would call this a "thirds" version as well!)

I would say, reduced to the max. Coming late I can only repeat the praise, this is my favourite of the uploads until now. You included just enough foreground for a perfect composition, the echo of patterns in the sand, rocks, sea, and sky is ingenious. But this strikes another chord, too. It is emotionally touching. Maybe I am more susceptible at the moment, listening to sacred music from Mozart... But this is really ethereal, one of the best seascapes I have seen so far.

 

A Happy New Year to you

 

Carsten

I am no expert but this looks fantastic to me.

It must look great printed off.

no words .... thanks for taking this photo and for sharing it. Praise be to God, truly.

Thanks to everyone for the extremely kind words.

 

Carsten, I'm glad that you spotted the echo of patterns in the sand and rocks. That alignment was the subject of several tripod moves while squinting in the light of my headlamp. I wanted to exploit the fact that the sand patterns matched the shape of the rock. It took a bit of work to achieve given that this was set up in near pitch blackness. I can't take credit though for further echoes of the rock shape in the tonal variations in the sea, or in the sky, but I am very happy to welcome them into the composition :-)

Must be excessive fancy, but I see kind of echo there ;-)

I see them too -- I just can't claim any credit for it :-)

wonderful. beautiful. the elements appear in perfect balance with each other. superb job!

This is the kind of photos I love, silently shots where we can dream.

Really excellent Leigh, congrats!

 

Eli

There is some Primeval eeriness in the composition that I liked very much.

 

Full credit for Originality and Aesthetics .

 

The Photo has 'Out Of This World' aura about it!!

What is that, fog? How do you hold a camera still for 6 minutes? Pretty cool.

I kinda like it alot.

Nothing to add. Just respect and feel. Regards

Bravo!

I did not even know what it was until I read what people wrote. It is truly amazing. How did you figure out the metering for this shot?

 

When I first looked at it, I thought it was a shot from up above and it was a mountain with fog covering. I love your work.