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Use of colours both dramatic and peaceful - very nice!

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Good shapes and colours - refreshing.

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Like the puffin and the composition. Find the red oversaturated, losing nature. For picture power, I'd crop off from the left of the pic to within a daisy-width of the C-shaped cleft in the rocks - this simplifies the shapes in the pic so everything is focussed on the bird.

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This is a wonderful picture! The stuff of dreams - local warmth, quotidian clothespegs, and starry infinity together.

This is at a northern Canadian seabird island. The photo has limitations - does it convey a

sense of the place, anyway?

Thanks Glenn. Might work to crop. Or - I wanted to include the up close fragments to give a sense of we the observers, distinct from the wet life we're seeing.

Very interesting to have the light going from forelight, to silhouette in the middle, and on to forelight again - all down one continuous sweep of pathway. Very well done!

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Hi Abby. Nice rich warm colours. Like the character in the hand and apparel - makes me think I know something about the shooter. You asked about cropping - what's your idea about the white spot top centre?

OK, thanks for the comment.

Dang! those ducks are dapper. I love the deep colours, and the interplay of emergent plants, sit-upon-the-surface floaters, ripples, and reflections.

Beautiful!

Great composition, rich colours. the hands are totally expressive. I'd say the blur's just like jazz blues.

Samuli, I love your sense of light in these 3 pictures. In each one the composition of the FIELDS of light is gracefully simple, while within each field there is lively and satisfying complexity, rhythm and shape. I don't really understand why other photo.net reviewers don't respond well to these features ... I think perhaps the majority are more easily oriented to spectacularly-defined and contrasting central shapes distinct from a secondary background. That kind of image also grabs the eye more wuickly in a small thumbnail, which may be what's needed to attract photo.net viewers who are scanning many thumbnails to select only a few images to enlarge and view attentively. What do you think?

 

Anyway, it would be unfortunate if you don't get the encouragement I think your work deserves. I, for one, would be very happy to see more.

 

Cheers, Tim Lash

Beautiful, and reveals nature. Here's another "like a painting" comment: it's lighting is like magic realism - it recollects both "North of Superior" by one of the Group of Seven, and the styles of Colville and Danby. I love the combination of (a) strong contrasting tree shapes and textures with shadow line in the foreground, (b) gorgeous soft patchiness of the ice surface as a background field, and © the subtle grey and brown palette.

For me, Duffy's right. Here's my test pic: Otherwise, the simplicity is full and peaceful - again, there's good structure.

Good simple compostion (a stretched "7", anchored at left by the lacy dot of the tree and at right by the severe wall columns). Each major compositional line has substance, and has its own texture and dark-light range. It's satisfying to look at more than once.

A great display of spring plenty and bursting freshness, delectability assured by clean pressed-paper and plastic packaging.

 

 

 

 

The streak of intense light and one shadow through the more diffuse light and shadow, and the surface texture, are very good. (Limitations? The streak seems blown out at the bottom. The down-to-the-left slant of the line of things in the wall distracts from the otherwise pure formality, and I haven't been able to discern its aesthetic purpose; other pics in your porttfolio, particularly in this folder, show sensitivity to the zing of formal precision, and I think it'd happen with this photo too if you straightened it up.) Good work.

Good colour, and good differentiation of foreground and background. My eye would prefer to have the top cropped down about halfway to the sun - the upper part of the sky is distractingly bright relative to the rich foreground.

I guess a picture should speak for itself, but the following may suggest some entry points if the photo is mute to you:

 

Soft rural winter colours. The view from the near hill gives four distinct flat planes, in steps from here to the far woods, at right angles to the receding furrows. Each tree and bush species has a characteristic skeleton shape that shows up in winter. Where does the most intense light in the picture carry your eye, relative to the things depicted? As an abstract pattern, is it interesting for you? Is the asymmetry dynamic, pleasing? Does the group of three trees in the near distance bring anything to mind? Does blurring the image with the PS watercolour filter help or hinder what the picture might do for a viewer?

 

For me the scene was beautiful. How successful the photo is in conveying that, or anything else that comes from it, is open for evaluation!

 

Glad you checked in.

 

A thought: I work on a mac laptop - what looks good on my mac LCD screen may look much darker on a PC screen after being posted on Photo.net. Did this just come out as dark smudges on your machine?

 

 

She's a she. Thanks for the kind comments.