m(ountain)oon

Ri, ...i am sorry, but I disagree on the presentation of this shot (recalling that I was present at this moment and saw it for real, I think you could have left it in colour - the colours were amazing!!)

 

... unless you prove your point seamlessly. Why did you do it bw and so contrasty?

That's a pleasant surprise, a challenging critique for a change...

 

Mind if i respond tomorrow ;), i'm going to watch superman!! with my dad!! like we did back when i can't even remember how long ago.

:))) suits me fine!

 

make sure that superman does not impress you too much, otherwise tomorrow I won't get any explanation ;))) Enjoy the company! (and the movie, too :)

i'm back :) and i wanted to talk to you about starkness and ruggedness and rockypeakyness. everytime i process a photograph to pull out it's flavour i check each individual colour channel for amazingness, with this one my original intension was to go colour fullblast like you liked, but when i saw the red channel it grabbed me like only a b&w landscape can, more alive somehow, more there. without colour it opens up the world of possibile colour, imagination, which doesn't directly fill in the colour for us, rather makes the mountain much more associatable, even an alien that hates anything but purple rocks would feel a connection here (sorry, i seem to have deviated into the merits of b&w generally rather than the specific merits of this b&w). i think the fact is that i simply liked it this way more, i felt the mountainy craggness was more potently portrayed, in a more masculine way (yes! that's it, it's more masculine, like me! HA! dispute that!! :))

colour version with forground curvyness to illustrate female version

Damn, man. You are right, the BW version is very masculine, for that matter, and even more so, when contrasted with the coloured feminine version.

well, what can I say? I think you are right, for what it's worth!

except for the moon, dangling there so femininely :))

.... like a sexy mole ;)

big mountains are

precisely, and rising only just above the more wildly treacherous part of the landscape

The B&W version, in my view, stands head and shoulders above the colour version. Its high contrast minimalism, almost implying the existence of the mountain, is very striking indeed. The moon is a vital ingredient. First class work.

Your last photos in BW - is smth. incredible. This one looks like marsian chronicles...

good work

thanks all!

In moutains, we can obtain dramatic BW contrasts whereas the colour version seems a little diluted. But here again a challenging opinion: I'd vote for a sqaure crop !

And I see you've adopted the thick black frame a la Salvatore Mele ....

wooow , Richard, what a gorgious moon. jana

moontain ?

Lionel!!!!!

 

[[vi silently gazes at Lionel in admiration:) ]]

Hahah !! This is too much Vi ! ;)))

it may seem obvious now that you've already thought of it, but it's really a rather good word graft, [or total lunacy]

Thank you tous les deux.

Richard - a very powerful mountain image indeed! your eye for this image is impressive. to take a relatively ordinary mountain image and transform that into this jagged and harsh b/w image is a marvelous thing. the gradation from light to dark in the sky, accented perfectly by the moon, is superb. i do, however, agree that a more square crop might benefit the image by loosing some of the black off the bottom.

Thanks Andrew. (and Lionel), the thing about the square crop is (it breaks) this:

http://gallery.photo.net/photo/4665455-sm.jpghttp://gallery.photo.net/photo/4665430-sm.jpg

And regarding the 'why don't you post them together in a single image?' question: Because, i think that anyone who goes no further than the single image that first caught their attention does not deserve to see any more than it.

That Richard's work is also to be viewed within the context of the folder itself!

 

I'm also fond of the colour version of this, and suggest that you post it as aseparate image, rather than "is this better in some way than that" - they're just Different. The b&W, though, seems stronger as part of a pair (hmm...interesting statement, that, Ri!) - and, just to get in the game, I have to say that I love the lunatic fringe of the moontaintips in the b&w version.

Lee, what you say is valid for your folder, mine, Vi's, and maybe this is what we all have in common after all !

I am a great believer that a pic is worth a thousand words, so why not write a book ???

Richard, true enough what you say. But why keep the way you link two of your images confidential ?
Here's how I tried with "seduction" and "grow old with me".