Elemental Landscape

Elemental:

1. fundamental: basic and essential

2. relating to natural forces

3. reduced to, or reducing something to, a stark simplicity

Let's put it onto semantic: can an abstract can be elemental? Most likely, making a landscape so elemental can go into the direction of abstraction, by removing all non-necessary aspects.

 

As for the picture, it surely fulfils the three definitions you've put forward, and I find it interesting and enjoyable. An additional detail, which I like is the apparent curvature of the clouds as opposed to the more straight line at the horizon.

The horizon is definately the point of tension in this image, as though it were being pushed and pulled at by the concave ground and convex sky. I don't know if this moves closer to being abstract or not. We all know what it is, though it is presented in a defamiliar manner. It's a bit surreal, too. Thanks for your thoughts.

Really like this one. Not sure if I'm seeing the tension, though. Instead, the curves are drawing my eye into the horizon in quite a gentle fashion, maybe to do with the colour scheme. A calming photo.

Yes, I agree. Tension was perhaps too strong a word, but I see the horizon as the precarious balancing point between two separate forces. This is definately more calming than II, though.

 

thanks.

thanks for your thoughts...

Really good photo. Like the small diffrence in colour between sea and sky. Well done

Very relaxing work. Well worked out and interesting idea. worth thinking over as well. Like this one best, color adds to the simplicity.

This beyond me and my comprehensions but I enjoyed

taking minute details of the colors. It's my favorite colors too. Interestingly done even though I do not understand how you did this.

Thanks for sharing and that comments you left.

 

By the way, this is a nice or rather a very good

art to be in a doctors waiting room.

Hi Sally,

this is a simple 1 second camera pan.

I really like the simplicity here.. and the pattern in the sky.. great colors also! Very interesting.. =)

 

Cheers

 

Patrick J

simply the best colors someone can shot.i did too many similar things with ps but not with my cam.

hope u the best

Like this one a lot too. I'd be more than happy to have this one in my portfolio. I love the duality - it can be read as an abstract or as a vast and empty landscape.

 

Curved horizons have come to really bug me. If they bug you too in Photoshop use Filter - Distort - Spherize and dial a percetange of about -5 (maybe a little more for this one, just keep trying it until it goes flat).

 

Cheers,

Eric

I think most viewers initially look for some sort of subject or focal point, and I think it's very difficult to make a successful image that doesn't have one (although I love trying! :-)) At first, I see the lower white line, then discover the darker line on the right which does help to balance it.

 

The more I look at it, it appears to open up a bit to the left, but in a way that is so subtle that you find yourself looking at it closer to see if you'll process it differently the longer you look at it.

 

(Does that make sense?)

Following up on Carl's comment, it rather pushes me to the right, not to the left.

 

I think this is due to the snow line down to the left, which points "inward" the shot rather than outward, and an overall left-to-right western bias in looking at images.

 

I feel slightly "warped" into the narrower and narrower pink line, and moved -or better accelerated- rightward.

Aaron this is as fine of a landscape as you will find on this site. For me the line on the horizon is where I am directed both from above where the clouds push me down and towards the back where the forces of the ground push. Very soothing...yet interesting in that there is so much in so little.

this reminds me of arbus, the picture identical twins invites even compels you to look for the differences between the two girls, to invent them as it were...calling the landscape tranquil makes me search for the dynamic elements in this image.

 

love the fact that the way it was made was an incredibly 'simple' idea

I agree with Eric, Aaron. Having recently experimented with a related aesthetic, this has a lot to recommend itself to me (although the barrel distortion is just a little off-putting). Nice work.

Beautiful: and magic!

Outstanding... 7/7

Thanks Ben!

Very striking image, primarily (IMO) because of the very thin but strong horizon line separating radiating lines in the water and sky that bend away from each other (convex and concave).

Stephen, I haven't looked at this shot in quite a long time. It's funny how as we get an accumulation of images, some, even the good ones, go to the bottom of the pile. Thanks for the refresher!

Aaron, it came up for me on the random image generator; otherwise, I would have missed it. On images that were originally submitted a long time ago, I add a comment only if I find the image to be especially striking, and yours fit that category.