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This location = Anglesey, North Wales,U.K.,

Kodak Infra Red,

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Nice composition and light. GJ

A most beautiful b&w work , Very good composition

Like J.S. best photos!

Very, very good! Great composition and light.

great photos in this folder. outstanding lines and composition. IR gives great mood as well.

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fabulous composition. Perhaps not so fabulous tonal scale...

Fascinating...requires more than a second look. Age, solitude, decay, and a sense of uneasiness all abound. And I like the Leonado-like ambiguously discontinuous horizon...very odd and very effective.

This is a great example of why film RULES in the black and white realm. I love DSLR's, but I've never seen a digital photo that captures this kind of mood. It's always some blah-looking gray. This TRULY IS a BLACK and WHITE photo. Digital darkroom-ers take note.

 

Brilliant location and composition, by the way!

wonderful B&W. the play with light gives this composition a wonderful mood. although not really a contrast of DoF the foreground and background work perfectly well together. nice technique

"fabulous composition. Perhaps not so fabulous tonal scale..."
I've got to agree. Contrast is a bit high but then again, that's infra-red film, so........
On top of this, I'd like to say, that this landscape has what's so often missing in landscape photography: it's got a real soul... Very dramatic, and a very successful angle, imo... And certainly the contrast should remain quite strong, because it fits the drama in this picture - which is, to me, a picture about death, as much as about a place...

Time destroys everything. This is the reality we feel. Here the IR light makes the scene unreal. Deep mood does not emerge. This is a false picture.

Excellent mood, Elegant composition. Congrats!

Strong shot according to the great composition,depth and the details that show here...I like the bent fences,that show us the mood of curving.
Regards(Bobby).

yes, I like the drama as well although there is more than is needed. You've set it up nicely. And Dan, by no means I want to start a film vs digital argument here under Gary's photo but it's perfectly possible to create a superb b&w digitally, at least if you know what you're doing.
And while Stanislovas made a fine compliment with his referral to Jean-Loup I thinks it's a bit flamboyant to say the least.

I am glad this was chosen as POW because it made me discover the b/w work of Gary, which is highly spectacular and teaches a lesson in analog photography. Additionally I find it impressive how many genres Gary manages to photograph well. Referring to the image above i am not quite sure about the light parts in the foreground; however it is certainly well com- and exposed, and the choice of tones is just fitting the subject. Personally i'd have chosen another image from the folder, there are a lot of gems to discover there. best wishes, fr.

Very good mood & composition. As for the contrast? Heck, it's IR. A bit tight at the bottom of the frame. An excellent piece

Great composition. Consistent elements of time, aging, weathering. Maybe an ineffective human attempt to stop inevitable erosion of landscape with old, rustic, dilapidated fence. Quietly highlighted cross, erected as permanently as possible on an ancient rock. Maybe not 'technically proper' with blown out highlights, but that doesn't affect me in the least. The IR contrast and radical tonal scale add to the time, aging and weathering. Very appropriate. I can see how this scene could have been approached with many different choices, but I very much appreciate this artist's approach. I think a less radical approach could have been beautiful as well, but I suspect I would still end up liking this one more. I really like this picture. Thanks for sharing.

I really like the composition and the way it draws my eye through the scene and to the cross, ultimately. It's one that takes a bit of time to get there, which I appreciate. There is a great sense of depth, aided by the perspective from which this is shot and the way the elements work together, creating such a sense of foreground and background.

The drama feels more imposed than emphasized. It seems like there was a lot of drama inherent in the moment, but I feel the drama here to be more of the photograph than of the scene I am transported to. The emotion feels burned in. This could merely be a matter of my own personal response to IR.

Wonderful subject and composition. I do feel the artificially dark sky contrasted by the blown highlights on the grass detract from the photo. Still well seen and I'm sure you will receive a lot of varied opinions on this.

Lovely composition, I enjoy the play of tones through out the image. I also like the cross just being slightly off center but I feel some tension when looking towards the lower left portion of the image. I can't explain it almost like the image is pulling too much to one side, or falls off. Sorry that I can not pinpoint what exactly I am feeling. But never-the-less a fantastic image. Curious about what equipment was used, as well as film format?

In the classic view of fine art photography, I usually find that black and white really captures the true aspects of lights and darks and this is no exception... I am not worthy to make suggested improvements on such an image with more than 30 years shooting I still find so much I can learn from others... I think that composition of the image is the key not so much technical apects such as focal point or use of the magic 3d's here the rules are broken in the 3d's but it is needed to make the image work... I do appreciate that bending of rules and the use of free expression in making and image great...

this feels like an attempt at fine art photography. unfortunately, the jpegs does not do much justice, which i am sure a print would rectify. i love the level at which you are shooting. the collapsed fence in the front is what i like the most. the overblown contrasted light makes it look interesting.