Summer Beyond the Polar Circle

this is a 4x5 Ektachrome 64 slide. I increased contrast. Anyway the

original slide looks much better than its Internet version.:) who

knows the magic of examining 4x5 slide on a light table that will

ubderstand me.:)

I could see that this image was spectacular in its detail. In a site with more than its fair share of waterfall photos and falling water photos (I have one of MY own, also on Ektachrome), I am glad to see you have reversed matters and done a 'falling waters' photo from the other side. This has been a pleasure to watch as it slowly has downloaded on my dialup Internet connection, a real treat. 7 aesthetics 6 originality

My best regards.

John (Crosley)

How do you do, John!:) Thank you for the comment! I hope soon you have a real fast Internet connection! meanwhile I go looking at your photos.:)

Rusla, I think I prefer this image as a B&W. But this is well composed and has great detail....

Yes, David, I agree since the slide is better looked at in real than on monitor.:) Thank you for coming!:)

I recently was at Yellowstone National Park, the crown jewel of America's national park system (and the first) and I noticed the hues and colors of the surroundings. Soon I viewed a 'top photographer's' 'recent trip' to the same park and I hardly recognized it. The saturation had been boosted up so much -- it is no wonder that the images were so wonderful; the colors just were not natural -- it was as though it had freshly rained on everything everywhere, but of course it had not. That's the effect of sliding the saturation slider up the scale. The magic of this photo is that you admit to bumping up the contrast, which is what any good photo processing machine would do, but this scene looks exactly like what I have seen in real life, not some pretty dream scene that I have never experienced except on Photo.net. And that's its magic. And that plus its wonderful composition and the wonderful clarity is why I felt it deserved such a top rating (and still do). I feel as though I could reach into those pools, or step from stone to stone, and literally slip into the water and get wet! I rate very vew photos, especially recently, because so many -- especially landscapes and waterfall photos look essentially so much alike, but this photo is quite different.

 

I like the color version -- perhaps because my 'laptop' has the sharpest resolution I've seen on any computer other than an Apple cinema monitor, and it literally sparkles. (oh, and I don't do or expect tit for tat in ratings)

 

Spacibo bolshoi for sharing.

 

John

John, thanks again.:) I tried to render the natureness of what I saw. But looking at this transparency on a light table is getting closer to the real scene much more. I will try to entertain you again!:) But nature is not the main part of what I photograph. I hope you will find something to critisize further! Visit me again, ok?:)

Why don't you use the complete 700 or so pixels width? This would certainly help. Moreover, I feel the image is oversharpened. It has so much details, you do not need to sharpen it by software (or the scanning software, if it is a scan).

 

I like your portrait much more, by the way.