At the Edge

All comments welcome.

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.

Very nice image, well lit and of great composition, thank you for sharing it and wishing you all of the best.

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).

Very nice image and work!!

 

Regards(Bobby).

The IR works fine here, adds to the kind of surreal atmosphere. Nice diagonal composition.

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.

buen trabajo, una excelente composición con un perfecto B/W. Saludos

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.

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.

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.