the visual journey - gallery i Twilight Kingdom

Stunning composition. The title is  perfect. I will indeed have to take a look at your persoanl website, I am very intrigued. Warm regards, Gail

Well conceived and executed.  Another masterful accomplishment, Marc.

Here's the kicker:  This thing you see here, is 12 inches tall!  I wanted to make it look huge, and maybe it does?  The entire thing was DOF blended with a light source I created.  It took about 1 hour to finish all the exposures needed to pull it off at night.  The sky and all was really there, the camera did not move.  Sometimes I get bored with reality and sometimes I want to find new places or new ways to record things entirely.  I've been doing this awhile now, and if I find one thing more true than anything else, it's that creativity is more fulfilling to me than anything else.   I think that in this day and age you see more copies of the same type of stuff and more similar compositions than ever, so why not?  Thanks!

Personally, I have adopted a much more documentary style and prefer my own work to reflect a greater dose of reality. However, I can understand exactly why you have changed your philosophy in recent years and admire the way you continue to push the boundaries. 

I do both.  Just depends on what I want.  The only line for me is not changing the subjects themselves, as I do want people to see those.   I have always ranged from true to what I saw to an exploration of what's possible with the tools we have.  Probably always will. 

too cool Marc......the sidelight and the stars coming thru a blue hour sky gives this one such a magical mood....

Hi Marc, I think this is my first posting on photo.net. What brought me to this image is, after reading the lengthy critiques pertaining to Spirit Garden - as I am sure you know Kah Kit Yoong posted a link to that discussion on Facebook, I then scrolled through the remaining images. This caught my eye as I liked the way you photographed through the Giant Tufa.

What really surprised me was your statement: "Here's the kicker: This thing you see here, is 12 inches tall!"

While I agree with Kah Kit's statement about documentary images compared to "twilight" images [ :-) ], and do appreciate your desire to push boundaries, personally I believe it is incumbent upon the artist when displaying what appears to be a traditional landscape (Mono Lake Tufa at night), to disclose in some manner that in fact this is a Mono Lake Mini-Tufa at night image.

In this instance your disclosure occurred in discussion rather than in a statement about the image itself.

Beautiful, pure magic. Congrats, Marc

Excellent.  Best Regards,

Bizarre, I have one from this same area I've dubbed Sunset Empire.  There is something about these petrified sand castles that conjures images of alien civilizations, your inclusion of the twilight sky enhances that fantasy.  There is something about the lower 5th of your photograph that bothers me.  Detail can be seen but it appears recovered, to me, and muddy.  That aside, it's truly fantastic and well imagined and executed.