The River

i like your style  image as a peinting congrats gerolamo

Lovely. Like the treatment and the processing. Creative art in simplicity. Like the reflection and the tonal play in the shot.

All the best. Warm Regards.

thank you, gentlemen~!

John, I really like this. It reminds me of the early works of the Dutch masters -- the ominous lighting (or darkness), the warm tones, the simple subject. Very well done. i'm always curious when I see an image like this if it was conceived before the shutter was clicked or emerged once the image was being processed?  In either case -- very inspirational.

John,  Thanks for the kind words. For me, the end product is almost always a work that (as you suggested) emerges along the way.  I don't just indiscriminately point and shoot (there's always something that draws me to take any particular picture), yet I find that quite often I have only a minimal realization of the potential of a photograph until I begin to work with it in post processing. Everyone has there own method that they feel comfortable with and that works best for them...but I'm actually glad that mine doesn't include a lot of previsualization.  That's just too structured for me. I enjoy the unfolding story, if you will...that comes with taking an image that somehow drew me in...and finding what it has to offer. Sometimes the process is like peeling away the layers of an onion, chipping away the part of the stone that doesn't belong to a piece of sculpture...and sometimes it involves adding, embellishing, even distorting elements of the picture until the vision is complete.  For me, the process is more instinctive...less about determining an eventuality and attempting to achieve it. Hope all that makes sense!  -  Regards,  John

o.k., Jack - Unless we're talking William Turner...you've lost me!  Help?

Well thank you, Jack.  I'll gladly accept a William Turner comparison...well deserved or not! ;)