Trois Fontaines Abbaye

Ruin abbaye under rain...

There are the elements for a great picture here - ruins, trees, moss - however I think the foreground stone is distracting, it tends to break the harmony. b&w would fit here as well. 5/5

Axel, thank you for your comment and suggestion. That's funny: my daughter think, like you, it would be better in BW. See below the result...

Well done! The advantage of b&w is that... bon je vais le dire en francais: la pierre du premier plan se fond mieux dans le reste de l'image en n&b; en couleur je trouvais que ca faisait un veritable obstacle. Voila!

This is a well done composition of what looks like a complicated subject- lots of lines and openings. I'd crop the foreground just a little, but that's all. Very good.

Great location! It seems like there were really two shots in here -- one on the left-hand side looking through to the collapsed main section of the abbey, and one on the right-hand side looking through the supporting buttresses. I feel a *little* overwhelmed by all the 'things' happening in this shot, and since part of the abbey is falling outwards it's also making the photo feel off-level (which I'm having trouble with although it's nothing that could be 'fixed' by tilting the camera).

... the shot works well in both black and white and color. This was one of the very first daughter houses of Citeaux, I believe, and shows all the signs of a Cistercian building. I have never been here, didn't know that it still existed. Thanks so much for this shot, Eric.