Phoenix Arizona 4 Windows at Sunset

You are right Jean -- and I like this one.. Have it as 11x14 framed in my home and in the office of a lawyer that purchased it in NY.

tells it story as-is - i agree square crop looks good - but other changes are impossible - if sun was on distant building then it would not light door and window frame (sun can only shine one way) - if building was centered, again inside door & window frames with sunlight would not be visible (due to straight-on perspective)

Ciao Mary.

This photo is simply beautiful. I vote it through instinct.

If I have to explain (firstly to myself) why I like it, I can say that the composition is surely amazing, that the light and the colours of the light are intriguing.

So, this photo is well done.

compliments

 

I am sure I have commented on this before..I usually remember all great images... the light and shapes you composed within the image make for an extraordinary architexture shot!

Wonderful photo. Embodies the principle that "less is more". I read all the stuff about cropping, and I think it's all the negative space that gives this image so much impact. On my monitor, I can see just a wisp of detail in the building, which falls a wisp short of what I'd like to see. I think this is one of those rare images that captures you immediately, but has staying power as well. Would very much like to see more of your personal work.

Ilove this photo and I love it as it is. And I'll venture into rationalizing my preferences:

1- The strong impact of the black space, as other critic has already said;

2- The fact that the vertical window is more prominent than the square small ones asks for a vertical composition, as you chose, and balances the final image;

3- The colours of the evening sky through the windows.

A perfect picture worthy of two 7s.

This is my favourite in your favourites!

No doubt about it !! This is fantastic and I really love the simplicity and the light/colour in it !!

 

/Kristian :)

Don't touch this photo! Don't crop it, don't flash it, don't reshoot it with sunlight hitting something here or there! THIS IS ART, DAMNIT! If people were told that this was a painting, they'd study it for hours and end up commenting on the implications of the negative space, the implied shapes, the social meaning behind the four portals, and on and on.

 

Honestly, if Dali's signature were on this, someone would be auctioning this off for tens of thousands of dollars (and rightly so!). If people could step away from the medium for just a moment, they'd see this for the beautiful art that it is.

 

Hats off to you, you inspire me.

 

-Tony

I like the crop, and I like the blackness, which makes the bright light of the arch--and especially the vertical line to the lower left of the arch--all the more dramatic. In fact, without that vertical line, I don't think that this picture would work nearly as well as it does, but it has to be a subtle vertical line, which it would no longer be with a tight crop, in my opinion.

I like the image, really. The three little windows show different pieces of sky, and that's really fine, at the left is good to see the color of the wall (red?), and the building in font of the big

it gives to concrete to the image, berthing it to one city truth. But the colors over the other building are too weak to me, above all when the blue above is so satureted, at the lef and in the middle. Good work, anyway

Mary, I like this pic. Especially the warm tones in the arch contrasted with the azure squares. You have achived the objective that you stated very well. My favorite parts of the pic are the verticle and horizontal sunset (or sunrise ?) lines of the arched window. I would certainly hang this keeper!

To my eyes....simply perfect Mary.

I understand the desire to crop but I think the original framing works best. There is a lot of negative space at the top but it *helps* the shot. It shows how clever your visualisation was in the first place - how you managed to extract this essence from a larger continuum. The tonal and colour graduations across the frame just set it off.

Nice and intriguant foto.

 

Because of the dark foreground, there is some lack of ... perspective.

May be a little flare could add some ... ?

 

I would like some lens distortion correction or may be a higher point of shooting, but i think you don't go around with a ladder so ...

 

Very nice picture anyway.

 

 

 

lovely abstract shot. Congrats

I think this is excellent... no cropping or anything else needed... perfect as it is...

Thanks