Strength, Determination, Grace

After a member found a mis-spelling (thanks), I'm posting this again

in the hopes for more feedback. Lesson number 12...check everything

before uploading, then check it again!

Not very original, but exquisitly executed! Doing something great with a trite subject may be the greatest challenge. Really well done.

Very nice work. Please see the attachment...

very good..congrats.

Very lovely image - I have seen these inspirational posters before, but I must say, this one is a favorite! Very nicely done and presented!

I love the photo. I'm less fond of your decision to give it the "poster treatment." The caption is, to me, both distracting and patronizing. It is also limiting, in that the photo may mean something different to someone else. Your image is well-captured and nicely detailed even viewed large. It can stand alone. I'd eliminate the borders and the caption and make a fine art print out of it.

 

I do not find your subject "trite." Some of the most prized art in the world is of subjects that are often painted or photographed. I do not find a well-done nude or landscape or image of mother-and-child "trite," for example, as it is the artist's interpretation and presentation of the subject that determines whether it is original or not.

I want to defend my use of the term trite. To me (and to Webster) trite implies something that has been overdone to the point of familiarity -- and therefore lost much of its original cache. Subjects that have reached that level of familiarity present a difficult challenge to those who would bring something fresh to the subject. I think that is what has happened here. There is an additional element of tone and grace that is presented in this image. I did not mean to imply that the image was in any way trite, but that the subject of the shell has been done so many times that it is very difficult to bring a fresh point of view. I think that has happened here. I, too, would think this image would be much better standing on its own without the frame and the motto.

Beautiful.

Very very nice shot Geoff.

Thanks for all the feedback. Your comments are truly appreciated!