jeff.grant 0 Posted June 2, 2009 Ian, I like this a lot. The B&W treatment works well, particularly in the sky where the monotone really set the mood. Those trees look like a great subject on the right day. Link to comment
Guest Guest Posted June 3, 2009 Very nice image, well lit and of great composition, thank you for sharing it and wishing you all of the best. Link to comment
iancoxleigh 0 Posted June 4, 2009 Thanks Guys. Jeff, these would indeed be an interesting subject in a variety of conditions. I'd love to go back (for a variety of reasons). Its too bad they are 4600 km away by car (exactly according to Google maps). Link to comment
carsten_ranke 0 Posted June 20, 2009 The IR works fine here, adds to the kind of surreal atmosphere. Nice diagonal composition. Link to comment
Guest Guest Posted July 5, 2009 For me, the composition and crop seem to point to your own desire for perspective and personality here. The tree trunk certainly has its own quirky personality, coiling almost like a snake on the bank. And so your one-sided composition, the use of negative space, and the cropping for incompleteness sake seem to be in tune with your subject matter. I always appreciate that kind of harmony being content and form or technique or photographic choices. The back lighting, especially being as atmospheric as it is, with a sense of thickness that air over water so often has, also strongly influences my feelings. And the fact that you've not silhouetted the tree but instead brought out the textures and life holds my attention and deepens the pleasure of viewing. Link to comment
gallego 1 Posted July 6, 2009 buen trabajo, una excelente composición con un perfecto B/W. Saludos Link to comment
pnital 36 Posted July 9, 2009 Interesting tree form, my imagination will describe the RHS as a "human " bent body supprting the rest of the tree....;-)) I like that bizarre form, the back light partly silhouetted, the water surrounding, and the soft "framing" of shadows around. Link to comment
iancoxleigh 0 Posted July 9, 2009 Thank you all for your comments. Sorry for not replying sooner. Fred, I am glad you feel my approach here fits with the subject matter so well. I had hoped that my image would connect with what I felt was the character of the place and this unusual tree. I also like the way you describe the atmosphere here – thick. I do not recall there being any density to it in person, but, I hoped the IR and my processing would give a bit more mysteriousness to the mood than otherwise existed. Pnina, thanks. I really like your anthropomorphic interpretation of the tree's form. I had not seen it that way myself, but, I enjoy thinking of it that way now. Friends, within the next week or so I will have an exciting announcement to make. Link to comment
bettiecl 0 Posted July 16, 2009 I agree with the anthropomorphic reading of the tree, maybe because that's what always intrigues me first in natural phenomena. But it then the mysterious light you chose to accentuate with the central light that really transport me to another realm. Toast to you Ian. Link to comment
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