Tropical Oasis (best viewed large)

After my last B&W image, thought I'd get back to a little more color

this time around. Taken at Lani Kai beach on Oahu, Hawaii. Your

opinions are always appreciated.

I like the centered chair, half sunny-half shadowed, the three colourful lines (yellow,green and blue). The vivid colours of course, and the way you show us the palm trees by the shadows....but, if only the whole parasol was included...

Well done!!!

amazing - beautiful - wonderful colors and composition14/7 14/7

Nice!

 

S.M.

its a nice picture but very "dejᠶu", u see a lot like this in travelling catalogs

Beautiful colours.

I like the tension in the otherwise symmetrical composition created by the off center umbrella and shadows. I, too would wish for the whole umbrella but also lower angle light behind you to lighten up the heavy rectangle.

Vincent > should one be striaght ( to the chair ) or at an angle ? If straight should one slightly tilt the umbrella to the left ..

Nice and original.

Thanks for your opinions on this. Here is another version, a vertical one capturing more of the scene. While I do like this attached version with a little more atmosphere from the palm shadows, it's being IN THE SCENE so to speak that leans me a bit further in the horizontal original version. I believe one gets a better sense of what it's like to be there. Although the more I look, the more I am starting to like the vertical.

 

The reason I do not have lower angle lighting here Carl, is because you lose the turquoise colors the further the sun goes down. This was taken at mid-day in the middle of the Summer to maximize the colors for this type of a scene. Thanks again.

Thanks for the explanation.

 

Judging by the position of the umbrella shadow, you wouldn't have to wait long for the chair back to get some sun. Although I like the palm shadows in the vertical, I agree with the idea of getting inside the shot and might suggest an even wider and perhaps lower view if the turquoise doesn't suffer.

The complaints from my wife as well as a stock company editor is "couldn't you find a nicer chair"?? I guess they probably are right. But hey, got the umbrella colors right. I do have several with the umbrella breathing better so to speak as well, but preferred this particular slide because of that bit of extra action in the water. It just gives this a little more contrast here and livens up the scene a bit more.

 

Yes I have seen images where the umbrella is tilted Tuhin, and also have a few like that too. However this invitaion hopefully is to come on down into the chair and umbrella in a more *practical* real-life, how we'd actually use it sense. Aloha.

Fantastic.....bravo

Love them both and won't even try to decide which I like best.

I wish I could be there right now

 

Cheers

Just Beautiful. You certainly captured the feeling of this scene. It is so inviting. I would love to be there, sitting in that chair.

Excellent!! Love the vertical version as well.

 

I like the composition, the chair, the whole bit but the bluuuuuuness of the sky, including the clouds is overdone, Yes I know its blue out there, but clouds are also white and usually grey as well.

Vincent, I'm with Pawel as, in my location, I think the snow we got the other day is here to stay for the next 5 months or so. Vertical or Horizontal version? That's easy. The vertical one has me as an outsider looking in. The horizontal version makes me feel like I am right there. Yah, a fancier chair would look nicer but this one would suit me just fine:) Best, LM.

I want to be there right now! 66

Thank you, Vincent for this shot. Here, it is so chilly that finding this is like being sitting down in that chair!

you are so lucky....being there...!!!

but just looking at this photo

makes me feel warmer...

and for a while I can forget the snow outside..7/6

This is a bright colorful oasis in a desert of dark moody shots on the TRP.

 

Agree on the tight crop of the umbrella, otherwise...wouldn't change a thing. Can't you send us all a ticket to this paradise????????

I like the vertical - guess I must be a voyeur or something.

the master of color & composition. that's how i know u. well, ppl might object on not including full umbrella, but, honestly. i don't find it objectional here. it's a luvly photo. the colors, the way foreground shadows suggest non inclusive environment, half shaded chair & waves & clouds, 2 distant peaks & again...the entire spectrum of colors that compliments this brilliant composition. luv, admire, worship your wrok.