wolfgangarnold 142 Posted January 5, 2013 if this reminds you of works of a well known Japanese artist, it's probably not a coincidence. I saw his works in Michael Fried's "Why Photography Matters as Art as never before" few months before I took this photo. Link to comment
gsphotoguy 2 Posted January 6, 2013 I like this concept very much. The minimalism makes for a wonderful calm feeling. I wonder if you considered moving the horizon down even further showing less of the snow covered ground? Link to comment
ruudalbers 0 Posted January 6, 2013 A beautiful and original result, Wolfgang!With best regards,Ruud. Link to comment
hamidh 0 Posted January 8, 2013 Elegant composition, Wolfgang. Evocative, meditative (and likely provocative to some though not to me). I disagree with the suggestion of lowering the horizon to lessen the snow area; I think it will get off kilter and significantly shatter the subtle equilibrium carefully achieved. Muss es sein? Es Muss Sein! That said, and only as a passing thought, I may have been inclined at the end to remove any trace of vignetting in the snow on the bottom edges and may be also on the top edges making it stretch more unfettered at either end into the continuum, as it were. Best wishes, -h. Link to comment
Jack McRitchie 150 Posted January 8, 2013 Unexpectedly dramatic. Just enough texture in the snow to pull it off. Link to comment
wolfgangarnold 142 Posted January 10, 2013 @Mark: many thanks for your comment and suggestion - though I'd rather tend to go with Hamids' suggestion, I like your idea as well because it probably would result in a slightly more abstract image.@Ilia: many thansk - glad you like it :-)@Ruud: many thanks for your continuous support!@Hamid: vielen Dank :-) - very carefully observed - the slight vignette indeed slipped through my attention (its a side effect of strongly increasing the contrast of the very limited tonal range of the original).@Jack: many thanks - I highly appreciate your comments!cheers, Wolfgang Link to comment
m_akin 2 Posted January 12, 2013 original composition..and really very beautiful..I ike it a lot. Link to comment
alfbailey 1 Posted January 14, 2013 Hi WolfgangI would concur with Jacks astute observations here, the very subtle textures in the snow are just enough to allow a sense of reality.Very well done! Best Regards Alf Link to comment
richard_john_edwards 0 Posted January 15, 2013 Wolfgang.The simplicity in this image is great, the gradation in the sky compliments the snow very well. I really like this. Link to comment
Wouter Willemse 851 Posted January 19, 2013 Enigmatic. As Jack wrote, just enough texture in the snow to make it work. It's a daring photo, I guess many casual viewers might be stumped by its super-simplicity. I love the riddle it poses, though. Link to comment
3m 0 Posted January 20, 2013 Wolfgang,I recently watched a documentary on Hirushi Sugimoto and your work here reminded me of his in some fashion... Sugimoto's work became even more interesting to me after I better understood his efforts to express 'time' and the transience of life in general... Listening to him talk about it was quite fascinating...I applaud your thinking outside of the box here with this photo & I feel that your photo needs to be seen rather large for the full sense to be coming through perhaps...Like Hamid, i too question the slight vignetting on the snowy parts, as it seems to add an artificial mood that is superfluous here, imo. Link to comment
wolfgangarnold 142 Posted January 22, 2013 Mehmet, Jörg, Alf, Richard, Wouter, Marjolein: Many thanks for your comments - glad, you appreciate it. It's indeed not intended for a casual viewer - and, as Marjolein observed, inspired by Hiroshi Sugimoto or almost rather 'copied' from his seascapes, which I find fascinating in their simplicity (so, let's call this a "hommage"). Link to comment
cyanatic 0 Posted January 24, 2013 "...if this reminds you of works of a well known Japanese artist, it's probably not a coincidence." My exact thought. Still yours, still well done. I find it both engaging and soothing somehow. Link to comment
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