Beheaded Buddha, Borobudur

The light of the misty morning in the jungle was what it was... what

about the composition? Advise on cropping is very, very much welcome!

Not sure that I would want to change anything at all here...

Looks to me like you have framed this very carefully. As for any thoughts of sadness. Well, only a sadness at seeing the destruction of something that most likely took quite some time to create. This is actually a very nice image. A quick glance at your Indonesia folder, shows me that you're not just an average happy snapper. ;-)

Nice composition, colors and DOF!

Peter, Roberto,

 

Thanks for your kind comments. Peter, the long-gone grandeur was indeed conveying the feeling of sadness, that the gloomy light enhanced.

The gloomy light obviously led to an image with muted colours. Which works to your advantage in this case, methinks.

I'll echo Peter's comments ... very nice one here. Most people would choose to shoot the most perfect statue, you have done otherwise and succeeded in creating a very good photo. The composition seems spot on to me (well, almost, just crop off a tiny slither on the right to remove the object sitting next to the statue). I also think the lighting and mist work very well here. I wonder what this would look like in B&W (please try and show me!), for I think the relative cheerfulness of the trees could be reduced, adding to the mood here.

The composition is perfect and the background puts everything into a broader context.

This is an impressive picture, the interesting thing is, although beheaded, the statue doesn't lose anything of it's power, maybe it's even more "spiritual", the mist adds to that impression.

Dr. Mele, I've certainly come to this discussion late, but I admire this one a lot: good light, good colors, and perfectly composed. It's a very elegaic photo that both celebrates and mourns what has been lost. Since I'm very interested in decay, antiquities, and religious iconography, I find this very engaging--the sort of thing I'd want to have photographed.