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marcin sacha

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Very strong image, two little trees surrounded by the huge chimneys of the nuclear power plant. Nature vs. industry, let's hope that it'll end like the battle between David and Goliath:). I also like the composition here, the net made by the wires and the lines on the chimneys add to its originality. Great work, thank you for sharing, -wm
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"Nuclear trees" is... a good question!... is one visual body of a strong and dangerous contradiction!... another version of the David and Goliath story?... is a very good, original and powerful photo!... Best regards.
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I ask myself: apart from any preconceived ideas, apart from what I am told or what I presume about this picture, what do I see? Three chimney looking structures, not very well lit or defined, and a small tree. And the sky behind it all is dull. Judging this as an image on its own merit, not trying to interpret anything, I find it to be of little aesthetic value. I see much nicer images in the author's portfolio.

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Apart the fact that you see two tree and not one [ ;-) ] I find this picture of some value even without the titles (this title - that to me sounds tiresome - on the other hand, imho, subtracts and doesn't add anything to the picture). First the composition in well designed, don't now either before or after the shot itself, but I don't care of this. Second the intersecting geometries are very interesting, the hyperbolic curves of the chimneys that meet the horizontal line of the ground and the cables that are perfectly horizontal themselves. And in this rigorous geometry, quite an abstract, two entropic elements: the trees, that break the regularity and convey the eyes even if they are in a "wrong" area of the picture. The fact that the sky is perfectly blank is definitely necessary here since the contrary would create another entropic element. Technically it's a good photo: focused, balanced, well exposed. Probably it is neither the best of the author neither on photonet, but imho it deserve a POW discussion (as your and my comment, by the way, demonstrate!).
Mauro

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My first feeling was cool. As I look longer I like the composition as it shows the towers for the there immense size. The fact that the compostion crops the tops off adds to this feeling for me. The part of the field taking so little room also makes the towers look even larger. The towers and the electric cables are broken by these two trees. This makes the image special and worth looking at and discussing, I find it a very good and interesting shot.

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While I like the idea behind the photograph, the execution of it doesn't work very well for me. The tones lack contrast and look flat to me, and the featureless sky adds to the flatness. In other words, it doesn't look black and white enough for me. The trees look artificially lighted, but I can't tell if it's photo manipulation or if the trees have white blossoms on them. There really isn't much here to hold my interest or make me want to look at it more than a couple of times.

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A photograph that addresses a deeply relevant social or environmental issue will always capture my initial interest, and one that expresses the issue so well, as does Marcin's, will keep my interest. The scale of the trees and their brightness in relation to the cooling towers express the issue most effectively, while the variation in light among the towers, their relative positions, and their overall forms contribute to aesthetic appeal. I think Marcin has a great eye and did a superb job in capturing and presenting an image to address nuclear power (or the larger concept of the human-built environment for human needs) in relation to elements of the natural world.

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I hope I would have made this shot, too. It's interesting in terms of light and circumstance. The gray tones are nice, but I wonder if color would not be the better choice. I guess I'd have to see it in color, first. The monotone sky is not too objectionable to me becuase the spaces between the towers become ovalesque forms in themselves. I like how the towers overlap one another. What I don't like at all are the utility wires that segment the image into four horizontal bands. There is nothing in the top three bands to warrent this kind of segmentation, which leads me to conclude that they don't by themselves add anything to the image in terms of composition. Neither do they contribute in terms of content. I'm sure they are electrical, and no doubt carry electricity generated by, or used by the nuclear plant, but they don't contribute to the stated them of the picture (nuclear trees), nor do they contribute any kind of irony in constrast to the theme. They're just there.
But, as I said, I hope I would have made this shot, too. It shows a good eye for light, and the camera work, and post processing is very well done, but those lines.... they are not helping.

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I love how the light seems to fall only on those two trees. It is interesting itself how life spring up between three nuclear chimneys.
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...this picture better work as an ecological statement than a work of art & it could be a visual part of an antiNuclear poster( write 'NO

2 NUKE' somewhere on the dark background - and you see result).

Removing a colors we leave a visual impact on the merci of graphical skeleton

& photographer idea; and in this case it does work - those tiny trees became

a small bush and huge dominating dark plant's trunks blocking the sky & threatening our ecological Being;

yes, it could be great for Poster!

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