Naoussa Harbor Night #5

A nice evening spent in Paros. Comments greatly appreciated. Bruce

Absolutely stunning. Great work.

You captured this scene well. I like the moon and the foreground exposure.

Outstanding exposure. An 80 second exposure and the lights in the buildings didn't blow out. I REALLY like the brightly illuminated large white building in the very back. Very nice work.

Bruce, this is a perfect example of a dynamic composition (which I dream to achieve; see my presentation "relations" if you care). Here you have 2 main attractors: the moon (isolated on the top half) and the massive boat in the foreground. These two have the same colour. The eye keeps moving from moon to boat and back and the relation is so strong that you think the boat is lit by moonlight (which is logically impossible). The two secondary attractors (the church on the left and the buildings, which previous commentors have remarked) function as to widen the moon-boat path into a kind of elliptic trajectory. The eye constantly scans the picture and interpetes it beyond logic, the way the artist wants. Impossible to sleep on the picture. This is a great success.