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thank you for looking

any comments please

thanks john

It seems that you exposed for the shadow of the... thing [looks like it's related to old canal locks or something]... and this has resulted in a sky that's completely blown out -- look at the white spot in the upper-left region. With the kind of shot that you took, I'm not sure what solution there is since you either get a well-exposed sky with pitch black in the shadows of the thing, or what you got here. An ND grad filter could have helped, but then you need to carry one around... worth it on big trips, a bit of a pain on short ones.

On the whole, I find the composition pleasant but it's not quite coming together for me as a striking image. I think that the problem [for me] might be that the central, static placing of the thing suggests something monumental, but the framing doesn't quite live up to that. Perhaps if you had knelt down and shot it so that it protruded further into the sky then it would have seemed grander than it is and this would have brought the composition together the right way?

Please note that I'm not saying there's anything dramatically wrong [which I do see in work on photo.net... both in mine and in others] -- it's not a case of poor framing or poor exposure atll -- just that it isn't *quite* working for me for the reasons outlined above...

HTH,

jon