Encounters in the fog

It was snowing, there was fog, and -ironically- this was called the

mountain of the sun...

 

Was I able to make -photographically- something out of the day?

This is beautiful . The composition is great

Salvatore, very moody winter image, cheers Jana (6/6)

It is successful in several ways. First, I find the soft foggy tones against the contrast in the person on the right side interesting. And the splash of strong color against the subdued palette is attractive. Well balanced composition. Bad weather, good photos...

Very nice contrasts Salvatore, of human and nature. The human figure is well accentuated on that foggy atmospher. I like the immaginative diagonal between the two ellement in the composition. "Less is more' works well here....

A favourite. I especially like the soft barely visible ridge line. Perfect composition, and definitely nice to have the skier in motion here, taking us with her on her journey.

Well done.

Alon, Jana, Carsten, Pnina, Julie, Radu, thanks for your comments and warm reception of this cold image.

 

I went for the elemental composition, yet with some motion in it, and it looks like -for once- I was able to communicate very clearly what I saw in the scene: all of your comments confirm it: something to be very happy about.

Salvatore, it works for all the reasons already stated. That red jacket is a real winner again.

No question that it works - excellent image. I like how the 3 tree trunks have been 'cropped' by the slope of the hill - works nicely to accentuate the otherwise very very subtle edge of the hill's curve.

Congratulations, Salvatore.

I think Jeremy summed up my thoughts on this image nicely. I of course love the figure in red, something of a trademark in your images.

Nice. I like how RJ ("Red Jacket") is still clearly visible, while the tree is looming up out of the fog, which we know will soon envelop RJ. Your composition here is perfect.

Hi Salvatore. The snow, the trees, the fog, all very moody. Winter. It could be in the Jura hills. The person in red jacket with the white cap as usual gives some colour and is at the right place to complete the picture. But I must admit, there is something which disturbes my feeling of balance. Is it the tilt of the person? Is the crop too narrow? I am not sure but something is there. Karl

Salvatore-Yes,ofcourse. The man in color adds beauty to the dreary winter landscape.

Combing the hill ? ;))

I think that everything you said recently about my surfer applies on this image. I like !

I've not been on PN often, lately, so here my belated answer to some of your points.

• Jeff, yes, the move to red was a most definitive winner after her previous yellow and orange jackets. However, in one old case, I am glad for the warmer orange colour.
• Jeremy, thanks. It was one of my ideas that getting a background behind the hill might have suggested a three-dimensionality in an otherwise flat image. I am glad you liked it.
• Laurie, indeed, "Little Red Riding Hood" -wasn't for that silly white hat which does not fit against a white background- is in almost all my outdoor shots recently... Summer is approaching, and I've a plan or two for some mountaneering shot series...you'll see more!
• Chris, thanks. A far object in the fog and a sharper closer one was another trick to suggest motion and depth in a flattish light (one of those days you spend more time looking at the compass than at the landscape, so to say). I am glad to see it worked.
• Karl, it is in the Franches Montagnes, in the Swiss Jura indeed. I cannot visualise what offsets your sense of balance, though. Maybe the way she is -at once- walking and looking up, so that your eyes as a viewer are pulled in both directions at once?
• AK, Lionel, thanks for stopping by.

Salvatore, I like the relationship between the sharp skier and the soft, distant tree, which functions as an abstraction, a goal, an ideal to be be reached in the distance.

Dr Brown, your enlighted comment -as usual- opens a new way to interpret my shots! I had never actively transposed the soft-tree/sharp-girl concept into anything else than a trick to give three-dimensionality to the image (what is enhanced, as Julie remarked, by the ridge cutting the bases of the trees). The interpretation as a (vague?) goal is truly interesting!

 

Thanks!