Find the Secret

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Cheers

Volker

Volker,  You have an amazing perspective here.  The water is so smooth that I feel as if I am racing along a hard surface to the horizon defined by those perfect lines in the clouds.  And, all of this is bisected by the structure in the middle.  You have hit the jackpot with this image.  Congratulations.  Larry

Volker, this is a stunning image, bravo.

Fantastic leading line straight through the infinity!

If you sit on this kind of picture long enough, sometimes they'll hatch, often beautifully.

This one isn't hatching for me.

It's a nice white (okay, blue) egg that shall remain a nice white egg. It needed a rooster.

I agree with Julie. No secrete to find, really.
What disturbs me most is that the two perspectives in play: the one in the centre and the sky, do not communicate. A feeling of unbalance and unease.

I, too, do not see a secret. A nice version of a picture we have seen many times before. There is something about piers and water that draws us to photograph them like this. Although this looks even more ultra wide that usual.

I confess it is not my way to shoot landscapes. Here in Brazil, we don't have winters with snow. I like to shoot landscapes with more movement, focusing on a subject highlighted at the scene. The composition is very good because it leverages the sense of perspective provided by the lines of the structure that progresses toward the center of the photograph. I think the noise in the centre of the work on skyline need a reduction. It gives the impression that the photo was made during the day or in the morning. I found it interesting and creative the abrupt end of the structure before finding the horizon line. We're used to the sight of the structure meeting the horizon line. I liked the blue tinge that the author gave to the scene.I think it's this type of composition that makes the work interesting and that is the secret that the author wanted to reveal.

Unless I am missing something, the title is unimportant.

What he does, here and elsewhere, is to strip the scene of many of its details except what he considers to be the essential (maybe that is his secret?). He has a good ability to transcend the reality of an ordinary scene (yes, this is an often seen photographic subject) and make it something else. His fine use of colour, not used garrishly, is part of that, coupled with a simplicity of subject matter that is refreshing. While I enjoy this one without being completely taken by it, many of his other photos are really worth a portfolio visit.

 

To my eyes, a very pleasing image.
The "shift to the right" of the leading lines of water and clouds is in some way counter-balanced by the tiny cluster of dark things (buildings ?) left on the horizon. Although I understand that this "shift" can generate a feeling of unbalance, it doesn't bother me. I may be vaccinated though, as I have quite a few icebergs pictures in my portfolio where the leading lines lead to the left or to the right towards... nothing but the vastness of the ocean.
Maybe the fact that it doesn't hatch is what creates the secret. Who knows what is in the egg? Who knows where those lines would lead?

Dear all,
Thanks so much for your support and to the editors for picking this image as an Photograph of the Week!
I feel much honored!
Bw, Volker