Forces of Nature

VERY DRAMATIC IMAGE, NICE LIGHT EFFECTS,

MARC ALL OF YOUR PHOTOGRAPHY IS WONDERFULL,

YOU ARE REALLY MASTER MIND PHOTOGRAPHER,

Once again another exemplary image, Marc. You are truly talented and it is a privelege to view your work. Thank you and have a wonderful Holiday Season. Dick

Hey Marc ... is this Waterton?

No, this is the shore of Saint Mary lake in Eastern Glacier NP.

A sunbeam breaks through stormy skies on a windy day in Glacier

National Park illuminating waves crashing on the rocky shores of Saint

Mary lake beneath dramatic high peaks. Thanks for looking.

Wow! Simply amazing!

Beautiful lighting, and perfectly captured. Awesome image.

 

Mike K.

 

Everything about this photograph is powerful - the clouds, the mountains, the water. Absolutely excellent!

so dramatic, so beautiful!!!

I lide the sun lighting the wave crashing the roc, well I like everything, nice job

What an amazing shot! Fantastic action with the waves. Techs are spot on. Just a wonderful composition! ~Heather

Fantastic composition with the light ray shining the wave crashing softly (and with fantastic speed exposition) in the rocks.

 

Congratulations

very dramatic shot. Beautiful light and tones.

Mark

I've always stood in awe of your shots. This is no exception. In this shot I noticed that the tree on the left competes a bit much with the rock on lower right. I would have framed from the right, but hey, that's me.

I also like an alternate 4x5 composition crop excluding most of the rock at right which emphasizes the sunbeam, tree and wave.

You're definitelly the landscape photographer I admire the most on Photo Net. Absolutelly incredible images, great talent and you seem to be always in the right place and do the right thing. Congratulations for your ambition, talent and determination.

 

Regards,

Eduard

I've stood not far from where this photo was taken, thanks for taking me back there.

Since i have not found this one on naturephotographers.net I am gonna comment here:

From your many great images I think I like this the most, and I also think I know why ;-)

The composition here seems to be a bit more complex and "dense" than the majority of your work except maybe for your forest scenes - and I like those as well very much. Although most of your images grab me and hold enough interest for me to go back from time to time and look at them again, some of them tend to be a bit too "easy". In this shot, theres a lot to observe and to discover and my eye keeps wandering around, but not in search of a point of interest, but due to the fact that there are a lot of points of interest that work together. Also the feeling here is a bit darker and heavy, not sweet - this also works for me.

To summarize, this image somewhat reminds me of the work of Rodney Lough (I hope you take this as a compliment :-)

Regards Dietrich

>>"some of them tend to be a bit too "easy"."

 

"Easy" is probably the hardest thing to do in landscape photography. We are faced with great complexities in nature and to find a way to cut through the chaos and provide the viewer with a scene that is easy to look at and inviting compositionally is the challenge at hand. Finding a way to capture multiple elements and make the scene work cohesively, such as in this image, is even more difficult because IF the viewer dosen't 'get' the image almost immediately, they are on to another one. So the ultimate goal then becomes finding as many pleasing elements as possible and using them together to create a whole which is still "easy" to look at. What I want to do is grab peoples attention with brilliant color, drama, subjects, whatever, and lead them quickly into the scene.

 

 

As photographers, we often like to experiment artisticly. To take abstract perspectives and develop our own personal styles - to create images that move us but may not always have that same appeal to others. I respect everyone's artistic vision and preferences, but let's not expect a more chaotic image to have the same type of mass appeal. Most people look at an image for about 1-2 seconds on average. We as photographers, however, see things a bit differently and might often prefer an image with a deeper meaning that requires more seeing. That's the difference between someone like yourself and the general public who buys my images. They are looking but you are seeing.

Thanks Marc! I do get your point, and since you have to make a living from your work, public taste has to be considered. I also totally agree that it is far from easy to simplify nature down to something that hits the average viewer immediately. I wish I was able to do so...

I also have to admit that I was a bit fooled: I did look again at your images here, and I "see" more complex images than I did before. Maybe some of your more "in-your-face" images that I was also impressed with overshadowed the other, more subtle work.

Again I want to stress that your work holds a lot of interest, both the "easy" and the "complex" even for people like me that "see" (thanks for the credit) , so I think you are on the right path..:-)

Regards Dietrich

In my humble opinion one of your most powerful images.

Regards,Irene