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"Your right though, there is no fruit, all been eaten, I guess."

 

:-)

 

I see you all made it out to Oregon. Hope your visit netted you some satisfying images.

 

Husnu gengonull,

 

I think number 11 is particularly nice. Your portfolio is beautiful.

Hey. This is not a response to your work. Trust what you are seeing. And go do it. You have a lot to share. My best. I am moving on.

I just love this, it reminds me of my first cat, a calico with a tendency to wander . . . just kidding (rating the flag), Carl.

 

The panel divisions seem to be less important in this one. The black helps to integrate in a more organic way. Different f stop than the similar upload in this folder?

 

Where your visual music images (to me) suggest tones, this is more like a jazz riff.

 

Rated in Que. Cheers

Outstanding (outsitting?). Three images?

 

Is he really retired? Looks to me like he's contemplating a new field? :-)

 

Very successful graphic, Marek. And it actually has a meaning

beyond the combination of elements. Very nice. Congrats.

While I respect David's eye a great deal, I believe the constructive composition comments miss the mark. I think the real symmetry (and I think that's a fair term) is in the way the diamond-shaped foreground grouping relates to the diamond-shaped central hill (of course I am including the reflections as well) and the background as a whole.

 

The central, brown hill is flanked by the peaks and the lit and shaded sides of these peaks form lines that radiate from the central brown hill. The two short diagonals radiating to the left, formed by the shadow on the left peak and its reflection, repeat the diagonals formed by the right side of the foreground grouping. Likewise, the two, short, less-definite diagonals formed by the lit (left) side of the right peak and its reflection, repeat (roughly) the left side of the foreground grouping. Its a subtle repetition across a fair amount of physical space.

 

Once you see that, then the you begin to see many repeated triangles of similar size inverted and repeated and distributed around the image as well as from foreground to background.

 

If you crop the right, the image becomes a lot less dynamic (try it). I would typically want the foreground group to be further to the right (that's my natural pull) but I think it works for many of us where it is because the space from the rocks to the right edge is similar to the space from the central brown hill to the left edge . . . almost.

 

Finally, it seems to me, the added length on the right allows for the formation of the two, large triangle shapes -- the right half of the sky and its reflection. This helps, moderately, it seems to me, to keep things from being weighted too much to the left. Perhaps it is this And the large triangle (consisting of the central brown horizontal background as its base and the foreground rock group as its top) that keep this composition from tipping too far to the left.

 

The ice strip is a great -- adding a central strip for the verticle mirrored symmetry.

 

I find this far from ordinary. The blue and brown complementary scheme is one of my favorites. The white frames this nicely. I hope this makes sense -- whether or not one agrees.

 

 

Eugene, you were fortunate to get the intense color interest to complement the main subject. Very nice presentation. The crest of the dune is a wonderful line.

 

Your story of the maze reminds me of some of my experiences. Congrats on a beautiful image.

Hi Chaz, I see you found some of that deep rich blue-gray late afternoon system to really set off the hills. It's interesting how different the views are and amazing how drastically the light changes the mood here.

 

Thanks for commenting on my vertical.

I sure like this. You've turned a natural split-complement almost into a direct one with the extreme contrast of the "shaded" background and "tinted" subject. [i hope this makes sense in your language.]

Two Weeks Later:

. . . apparently not

Always wondered what set all your horses to moving. (and I'm a dog man.)

Hey, nice composition, Samo.

Julio's response, though canned, is right on. Wish I'd have taken this. Congrats, D.

:-)

there's not a lick of fruit on the thing!

 

:-)

 

Lovely scene, Sondra, the clouds act as foliage for the tree . . . to this eye.

 

congrats.

Delightful image. Congrats. I love it.

Is this the water line?

 

Beautiful variation of the three primary colors. Rich texture. :-)

Cool Shot -- the surfers holding their boards mimic the gulls.

This canyon is special and magic and everything else.

 

The cliff shown here is the outside bend of an extreme bend in the river named for its resemblance to the tail of a beaver. It is basically a drop of over 2000 feet to the river surface. It is amazing. I camped here for a canoeing trip once and it was over 110 degrees. At 10 PM it was still hard to breath the air was so hot. It became reasonable about 1 am.

 

Oregon nature photographers really ought to spend some energy bringing the raw beauty of this place to the eyes and minds of others.

 

This particular bend can be IDd from space.

Larry is right on -- gotta be without ice.

 

Daniel, that blue you saw reflecting into the Columbia is a real trip. Cloud cover is really making a mark on the other colors as well.

 

We all see many shots of this one. Some make you tremble and weep, some are just a trip to look at. Thanks for not bailing on it because its been done, and thanks for showing it in a different light.

 

Hey, how come Lewis and Clark said nothing of Crown Point in their journals? What's that about?

Dale, those were more general comments -- just looking at your folio. If they don't seem relevant to you, don't worry about it.

 

I like this image and I don't find it boring. The barn is dead center, but the barn's shadow and background tree shadow create some movement around the barn, Also your placement of the lighter weed patch helps too.

 

I don't think the boring comment was really fair in terms of the image -- although the person may be bored by it, as a reader/viewer, s/he does have some responsibility for that.

 

My personal tendency is to want to see the barn to one side balancing (informally) what's left. But at the same time, I have to respect the fact that there may well have been sound reasons for not framing the scene that way.

 

Anyway, good luck with your photography.

 

 

"This is about as interesting as I can make a brick barn."

 

This should tell you something, Dale. Maybe brick barns are not in the cards for you. Or perhaps there are other ways of presenting these sorts of subjects. Just a thought.

 

Personally, I'd get in there and explore the surfaces, search for pleasing arrangements of light and dark. Look for detail. Look for repetition of pattern -- at varying scale.

 

Keep an open mind. Explore. Seek beauty, not novelty. Sight gags rarely have much staying power and really don't contribute to anyone's visual education.

Louis, that man looks like George Bush.

 

And that kind of looks like the Whitehouse. Haunted indeed.

 

fun work

My Father and I once caught around 50 trout here. Very nice work, Lalit.

Erwin, nice Droste effect. Makes me want a Cocoa. Thanks for commenting on "false dichotomy." I enjoyed your portfolio a lot. TK

wonderful lines. I enjoy how your composition essentially repeats the idea once you get beyond that horizontal ridge, but at a much smaller scale. Now This is a musical image.