cchristy

I agree with the previous Comment. The sheep are in the wrong place. Perhaps if you could have moved so that they would be on the other side of the photo it would have been better. Then the white of the sheep would have balanced the white of the clouds.

I think it's great, too. but I do have a bit of a quibble. It seems to me that the photo is over-saturated and too contrasty. It's like Maxfield Parrish painting beautiful but other-worldly, my views are probably not widely held among the photo-net members but I'd be interested in finding out,

this is a great photo, well balanced and ok composition. except the eye goes back and forth between the eagle and the lighthouse (it is a lighthouse isn't it?). a third element would be nice. the main problem i have is not in the photo but in the title. i've seen loads of bald eagles and they're almost always sitting in a tree and waiting for the ospreys to catch something. then they take off and chase the osprey until he drops the fish. scavangers and bullies. hardly appropriate as a symbol for the us of a. or is it?

It is exceptional composition, tho perhaps little too dramatic with the arm and the hand pointing the way in to the image. D0 you think that arm and hand adds something to the photo?. Perhaps if you put the owner of the hand and arm back into the photo down by the end of the street, it might be more rewarding. And a little darkening of the light wall in the back right might help to round out the photo. In any case it's good composition. congratulations on seeing it. it's frequently best not to gild the lily.

Resembles a Maxfield Parrish painting. And, in that regard, I like it. but as a photograph i think its oversaturated. This is a personal preference of mine,so take it for that. The composition is ok with the eye going straight to the yellowish mound at the upper right. But then it follows the water right out of the picture. Perhaps if you cut off the bottom st the narrow part where the big rocks are, it might serve to keep the eye in the picture. the photo has a nice sense of depth and invites the viewer into the scene.

 

i hope these comments will be helpful,

 

chris

It's a head of cabbage sliced open. I know because I just bought two paintings of heads of cabbages sliced open. The artist used fewer lines than in real cabbages, but the effect is very much the same.

I don't see why it should be cropped. Nor where.

 

Chris