The Ark

I love this picture, I just cant get enough!

Very nice.

I just wanted to see it again, this is so wonderful!

Both interesting and original. Almost an illustration. Perhaps you shouold pursue this photographic direction. Nice...

This is one of the most interesting photo's I have seen in here! Very unique!

This has a very ethereal quality to it. Great shot.

 

Usually when I click on the "Top Rated Photos" list it is just to look at the thumbnails to see if anything catches my eye. If so, I open it up to view it, not to rate it or tear it apart because it's not technically correct. This one did it for me. It caught my attention immediately. I can't get over how much I enjoy viewing this photograph. Beautiful. It would be a pleasure to have something like this on my wall.

Just Fabulous!

its got that overall pastel look. Dynamic! very good job.

This 40-50 foot long, unfinished hull was near my college in Mass., sitting nearly dry in the marsh. It was several hundred yards from deeper water. I can only assume it was carried here during a time of storm/high water. We all called it The Ark. The only adjustment to this picture was "auto-levels" in PS, otherwise it is a straight shot. Thanks for the comments.

What a geat shot of ark...err...art...;-)

I like the detail the grass in the foreground, the light, the light aroung the boat.. and other things that don't come to mind right now. Well done and keep doing it.

The detail in the foreground and the soft / saturated colors...this is beautiful. Very ethereal image. The 'Ark' seems to have a halo itself. Great work Dan. Keep up the great work.

I like it! Especially the slight curve in the marshy horizon (which I may be imagining) that suggests the boat is really on top of the world. It's too bad the hull itself isn't a more attractive shape, but I suppose that complaint is even more petty than most! ;)

This is a fantastic shot-one of my favorites on this site. I get a very surreal and calming feeling when I look at it. The hazy/foggy conditions just add to the serenity of the photograph. Well done. Just one question, to what is the boat tied to? Regards, Eric.

On the surface it is just a photo of an inland beached boat, but the way it was photographed (perspective, and composition) and the conditions (lighting and fog) made this otherwise boring image look spiritual. The boat seems to glow and the seclusion of this location makes it look like this is a solemn place that is mostly untouched and untraveled upon by man. Fabulous photograph.

aliens, spooky!

It makes me think of "the ark". Feels as if the flood has ended and this massive ship is just simply stranded on the shore of a creek that was once a major river.

 

If I didnt know better I would say it had a lot more social depth than I guess you intended it to.

A good "photograph" this. It works on more than one level. Nice. Except for... nah, just kidding.

The composition is perfect to me, and the backlighting is interesting. Colors at the bottom ar very good as well. Yet, the colors on the boat itself and around it in the grass are faded, and that, imo, isn't a purely positive point. I also wish the sky could be more dramatic - well, if possible... Finally, I see a DOF issue here. It might be debatable actually, but I personally would have wish the near foreground to be sharper... So, an 8 / 8 seems right to me. Regards.

DOF (there are a lot of acronyms on this site) is sometimes overrated if not contrary to the character of a shot. In this case, to my own taste (imo?), the fuzzy edges help this epic ambiguity. The boat is remembering when it was useful, the land remembers when the water held sway. Even the featureless sky plays to that sense of limbo. A moving image. Bravo! Adam