september Summer mist

What a beauty!!!! this is a painting, Maria:)

Cheers, allon.

It is simply meaningless to explain in text that this is

"At the last golden light of the evening, jst after a summer storm."

There is nothing in the image that gives the viewer any clue that this scene was shot in the evening (or any particular time of day), that a storm has passed or that there are golden rays of lingering sunshine.

There is no hint of any of those qualities or events. And if the image itself doesn't say it, no amount of textual explanation makes a bit of difference.

The light is directionless and leaden. Not glowing and sparkling. The "mist" is simply a uniformly-abscuring shroud. It does not throw forground into relief, it doesn't provide charm, it just hides color, texture and form from view.

The foreground is empty and amorphous. Forms in the distance are overexposed or hidden in glare, uninteresting and add nothing to the composition.

Perhaps, some of the difficulty is the lens used. A zoom is not well-suited to this task. Internal flare may be significantly responsible for very poor local and global contrast. I've never heard anything particularly positive of the brand.

Who can tell if the photographer's "manual focus" technique succeeds here? The softening effects of mist and lens are indistinguisable.

It's very possible that the original scene was quite lovely. But the photographer has again misunderstood that sceneic beauty and beauty on film are very different things. This scene requires substantial understanding of photographic technique to let the viewer share the original beauty. It takes a lot more than just aiming the camera and firing the shutter.

VL