romantic umbrellas

thanks your for comments..

It is a beautiful image and a wonderful concept. It is art. Nicely done. Dan

- is +. Minimalist. Splendid.

conceptual , Thx for sharing!

a silent pic with lots of sound

I have nothing to say. I am only here to admire.

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I hate to be the first one to comment. Seems to be my chore, some weeks. In looking at your very small portfolio, only six photos, I see you have a very definite style. In my humble view, you've found a niche, and are sticking to it. Great work overall. I like the square format too. Even though I consider myself a cropper, I see no way to improve on this one by cropping. It seems to me that the horizon line dips about a degree to the right. I perfer the subject matter of a couple of others in your portfolio much more than the umbrellas, but that is just me. You do nice work overall and I congratulate you on being chosen for this weeks honors.

 

Willie the Cropper

Very striking image, photography and art goes well together here.

Excellent photo. Maybe I would blur (just a little bit) the right part of "horizon", but that is just a personal taste. A piece of art! Bravo!

Minimalist framing... Just two lovers (umbrellas)... nice exposure time... Cong.

Good idea and perfect result...

In two words: essential composition. You are a purist. Your photo matches the basic rules of composition and fulfills the law of simplicity. Behind this "simple" result there is a great thought and a great vision.

You have the skill of breaking up the vision's element and keeping only what is necessary to build up a picture... And still convey a feeling!

Congratulations, Alberto.

I have seen this kind of magnificent images before, but normally they represent landscapes. This photo is one of the best I have ever admired because it let us imagine two persons, in a deep, quiet silence...

Thank you for sharing your art.

Magic image!, I can breath the silence and I love the idea…The low timing increase the water aesthetic; I'm an enthusiast about the people who has creativity and you are one…In my opinion the photography not always must be under the rules, if we can be creative’s the rules must be broken in some occasions. Excellent job Nilgun!

Stunning work! Which simply proves that to be successful a photograph doesn't need to be photo-shopped to death and chock full of so

much over sharpened detail that it begins to lack any sense of focal attention ... hence the comment "- is +" aptly applies. Congratulations

Nilgun Kara!

Amazing. Exquisite. Evokes emotion and thought. What photography is all about

 

linda kuo

Such a simple subject that provoked much thought. My first impression was of umbrellas being slowly absorbed into the floor. You look further, and see the gentle shimmer of the water, the refracted poles under the surface. The shades of grey are perfect.

 

I love this image.

Global warming! That was my first thought - perhaps the people who were employing these umbrellas have already been consumed by the water - not that it feels like a dark or dooming photo. In fact, I thought that it makes it all seem quite eligant. Very thought provoking in any event. So many ways to look at it. Original shot. Congratulations

Nice image, very neat and well composed, but what I like best here is the idea... We've seen chairs in the water like this other shot in your portfolio before, but umbrellas as a pair and sinking, not yet... and besides their nice shapes and nice opposite tones, these umbrellas have a great symbolic value... As someone wrote above, "Perhaps the people who were employing these umbrellas have already been consumed by the water"... My first thought was exactly the same, and then I tried to figure what the water could possibly symbolize. Generally speaking, it's a symbol of life... here, a consuming life - which is called love, I guess...:-) Or perhaps this is what the tide would do when a couple of lovers forget to go back home, absorbed by their love, or by a fantastic sunrise or sunset. Or perhaps tide is a symbol of time here, and the picture could also mean in that case that love always sinks with passing time... A very beautiful image with rich possibilities for interpretation. I like it. Well done !

Congrats for the worthy selection. It reminds me Salih's work with umbrellas on snowy streets.

Something about the unique shape of umbrellas and their out-of-place placements are intriguing.

I hope you were able to retrieve them after the shoot.

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Mehmet Ozgur

i find this shot stunning. so simple and so striking. very nice work.

I like this concept a lot. The composition is simple and great. The purity above all gives the feeling of elegance and joyful mystery. I'd like to frame it and put it on the wall.

Beatiful in all simplicity! Lovely composition and light. This picture paints stories in my head, which is great. Powerful photo!

I won't comment on the aesthetics of this photo which has already been done, but I do find one aspect of thisweeks POTW somewhat disturbing. This picture has had almost exclusively ecstatic reviews, which is fair enough;everybody is entitle to an opinion and indeed this forum would be quite sterile without those opinions. But thefact that nobody has seen fit to question what to me ( and I don't claim to be any sort of expert) seems to beglaringly obvious even from a first, cursory glance, disturbs me almost as much as the strange element in thisphoto

The photographer, when posting this photo, deliberately ticked the box indicating that the photo has not beenmanipulated. Part of the P.Net definition of an un-manipulated photo is:

* a single uninterrupted exposure.

My question is, given a single light source, in this case the Sun, how can a single uninterrupted exposureproduce two shadows pointing in quite different directions? I know the Sun travells across the sky, but even along exposure would not produce two shadows at approximately 45 degrees to each other. I think the Sun would takehours rather than minutes to effect such a displacement. I have looked at the rest of this photographers work andI would have similar queries regarding his other photos which he has indicated are un-manipulated.As a non-expertwho is still struggling with Elements 4, I maybe missing some simple, reasonable explanation in which case I candepend on YOU to put some manners on me! FRANK GAFFNEY.

here comes a simple reasonable explanation:),

what you called "2 shadows which had 45 degrees with each other" are not shadows:) those are reflections of the umbrellas, you see those, in case you havent noticed, because they are on water,

anways, i can send the raw photos if you like:)