Reflections

Tell me what you think.

Jim: The arrangement of the compartments of this image is almost Mondrian in feeling. The ghostly reflection of the the fence in the water at top adds an interesting vertical texture in contrast to the rest of the water which is mostly horizontal in texture. The bridge pilings, the fence reflection, and the water plants and their reflections along the shore set us up with an upper third going one way. The other two thirds go the other way mostly. It's just a very nice abstract image with a lot of strong shapes trisecting it. I have a blank strip across the bottom, however. Is that intentional?

For piet's sake, i had to seewhat it would look like squared-up (mondrian would have wanted it that way):

Fred, yeah I had to have a long lens. It's very cool even though this particular one is huge (long and heavy). I liked the fence reflection too. I don't see the blank strip, is it black? If it's just a pixel or two, it's poor cropping from the scan.

 

Peter, the perspective makes it hard for everything to look square. I didn't intent it to be this close, but to get the fence where it is and the dogwood reflection, I ended up at this spot.

fred, i believe the black strip is in the first order of reflection i.e. reflecting the inside underside of the far joist.

not so?

When I did the comment the box holding the image had a blank space at the bottom. Probably just because I was on a dialup connection and it never finished loading. I'm not used to dialup connections anymore.

 

I'm so happy, Jim, that you carry a heavy lens around now. It means you're really serious. I mean, if peter (Piet? Are you named for Mondrian?) can carry a Hassie on the ferry then we all can carry heavy lenses around, right? All of my new lenses are about two to four times as heavy as the old ones. When I ordered them I had no idea they were sold by the pound.

Peter's squared-off version has a certain geometrical appeal, but the posted image is a lot more obviously of this world. That has an appeal all its own. Either way, it's an excellent reflection on wooden byways.