The Dance of Ghosts

Do not be afraid. Join me to the dark times of the Tsoatsoa land.

Where , while waiting for the first sun rays , the ghostly 500 years

old trees perform their last night dance..

Your next masterpiece. Nice colors and composition. I feel ghosts dancing among dry trees. Congratulations

Simple, but very effective, nice colors. Cheers, Sondra

very nice

Great title! ..and the colors and composition as always..

 

K..

Agree w/ everyone Jana, this is a great shot, lovely contrast in ground and hills with the trees cutting the color difference, nice compo! and title 8^) (I get server error, 7/6)

Another Great work. It's MAGIC!

Magic! You should publish these pictures. (Thanks for writing a short description of the scene. It makes your pictures that much more interesting)

Excellent, surreal, mysterious. Artistic composition and superb color palette !

Yes, if you ever publish an expensive hardback book of your photos, I will stand in line to buy it!

eerie and imaginative ... lovely shot 7/7

Surreal is the right adjective; mystical and moody as well. This is stunningly beautiful. I don't know how you keep coming up with these shots. I'm in awe.

Wow. Beautiful and amazing - especially knowing that there is no PS work.

magical and incredible atmosphere

This looks like a wonderful place to take photos. I would love to go one day! The title really compliments this photo but even without it, it stands on its own. These simple yet complex figures against a slightly textured fore and background make for such an interesting subject. I bet you could spend all day and night here! I wasn't sure if your horizon was off, so I played with it in PS and found that I prefer the straight horizon compared to the slight diagonal you have here. While I was playing (I hope you don't mind) I found that there is a lot that you can do with this image. It would make a great B&W, sepia toned and even some psychedellic colours would give this image wow and punch. But I do like it as you have presented here (with a tad more contrast). Another thing that I thought about was taking this type of composition from different angles. Try composing so that none of the trees actually overlap and then some that create interesting shapes by overlapping. I could really go on about this shot and other ideas for the area but I'm sure you already know. Thank you for sharing this wonderful place, I hope I will get a chance to visit it in my lifetime. :)

Nanette, thanks . I have a lot of images from this place, some of them you can view in the ENIGMA, Impression and Desertscapes folders. Most of them are still not on the PN, as I want to show a variety of subjects here. I also shot this scene in B&W , but I prefer the colour images, as the sand colour is very strange and definitelly an asset. jana

You are living in a beatiful place to take picture and you took the soul of the place. I saw also the abstract photo of the same place, two different views but both very nice.

Another fabulous masterwork Jana. The title is also appropriately chosen.

 

I love these colours that you get from Velvia film; it's matchless!

 

Greetings,

 

Thierry

I love the whole set of these dead trees, just outstanding!

Hola Jana!

 

Once I had read your tittle it is imposible to think in a diferent way. Powerful dance in this shot, very nice chosen color tones and nice strong detail with the foreground cropped tree.

 

My best regards.

Hi Jana, Wonderful composition. Your pictures are more like paintings rather then photography. The key message seems to come from the shapes while the actual content is pushed back. Well done. Kind regards, Michael

A most remarkable work or art. Nicely done!

Regards, Linda