canoe guide

Erskine -

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hey Mona Chrome - Thanks very much for the thoughtful feedback and for taking the time to look around my portfolio. i appreciate it very much.

A thought on how i approach my triptychs (and photography in general). i - like some, but not many - believe that one of photography's most interesting qualities is the abilility to record what you don't see - emotion and feeling. With that end in mind, i don't always asssemble triptychs strictly by their visual qualities. Most often, i put them together by feel.

i am especially pleased when one of my triptychs combines both a visual flow and an emotional/intellectual flow as well - something i call Illustrative and Illuminative.

In this particular case, visually, i like the left-to-right flow of cool to warm (color and season), i like the 2 complete "v"s bracketting the "broken" v (a little discord never hurts), i also like the l-r flow of hard to soft subject texture.

This triptych resonants for me emotionally and intellectually as well, but i always like to leave it to the observer to draw their own connections on this level.

Thanks again for the comments

thanks for the comments

Danny O - it was dark - very dark. the sun had set and the only light was a very muted light from a deep grey overcast and drizzle.

hence, the gloaming. lightening or brightening these photographs would totally destroy thre feel and mood of the moment. or, at least that's my take on it

thanks Has E

I didn't center the trees because I felt that there was a counter-balance established by the warm clouds in the upper left.

thanks for the feedback

the vignetting is deliberate - i apply my Holga-Toy Camera filter/Photoshop Action Set to all of my Adirondack Dream Memories photographs