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Actually, it is Fritillaria meleagris (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fritillaria_meleagris).

A pretty photo none-the-less.

So much with so little. Amazing.

Thanks Drew!

Thank you. You seem to see this much as I do.

I haven't been very active on PN in a long time, but friendly comments out of the blue such as this one make me remember what an encouraging community there is here. Especially, if one puts some effort into engaging.

Thanks Volker.

I understand your comment about the audience of PN. I am sure that Edgar Martins' work, or any number of other inspiring photographer's images, would go rather unnoticed here.

Thanks Andrej!

Hi Rick,

When I took this photograph and originally worked upon it I was under the impression it was in Mendocino. I titled it Mendocino Moonrise.

In my exchange above I thought it was just south of Ft. Bragg. However, an astute local on another forum forced me to reconsider that conclusion. I now believe this is from the lookout just south of Ft Ross, north of Jenner CA, which would be in Sonora. I did consider spending the night at Ft Ross, and then changed my mind moved on. I think this image was taken after that point.

Amarone is my favourite style of wine. I am so very jealous of you now.

P.S. Lovely image! The contrast between the colour of the grape skins and the rich red of the wood is simply lovely.

Thanks all.

V S, I agree with you about that bit of too bright space being a bit too noticeable. I have darkened it as much as I could. There doesn't seem to be a good crop either and I couldn't frame it out when I was on scene. Que sera, sera . . .

All comments welcome. Taken from King St., under

Eastern/Adelaide/Richmond Sts. in Toronto.

This is an interesting concept for an image. The old town church(?) tower contrasting against the new industry is engaging and the blurred smoke emphasizes the productive and polluting nature of the industry.

There are some technical flaws. The over-sharpening is concerning and distracting. The lights on the towers grab my attention away from the natural composition of the image. A soft glow would have been better in my opinion.

The inclusion of stars in the upper right might have seemed a nice way to get the viewer's attention back into the image. However, knowing how long an exposure this must have been to achieve the smoke/steam blurring, the stars only seem unnatural. This is unfortunate because the whole image now seems manufactured and, for me anyways, this undercuts its possible effectiveness on my as a viewer. The intensity of the toning also come into play in creating this impression.

Lastly, and unfortunately for this image, long-exposure night images of steam emerging from industry is a well explored theme. My mind is immediately taken to more evocative and successful work such as Kenna's Ratcliffe (and other power-station) images, or Denis Olivier's industrial images.

Paul, I like it a lot more.  There is enough space in the frame for the curving sweep of the rock to have room to reveal itself, but I no longer get lost out on the right.

I really like the light you have presented here: the soft shadows and the blurred sky and the slightly moving tree all work very well together.

My one problem with the image is the balance of the composition. It feels very left-side heavy and I am not sure the little bit of city skyline is enough to offer any real balance. As a result, I think a crop in from the right would improve things. A 4x5 with that little pile of partially submerged rocks anchoring the right edge might be nice, as might a more radical crop to square (or even 4x5 vertical). Was offering a bit more space on the left possible? Of course, I have no idea what the site was like in person.

Still, as I said, there is a lot to like here. The details in the rock and the way the light hits the grasses on it make this engaging and rewarding of visual exploration.

My first thought was that I quite like this. I was struck by the repeating lines between the shape of the largest rock and the falling water. However, I keep feeling this is somehow a little unbalanced. That said, I can't seem to suggest a way to improve it (any crop I hastily try doesn't improve matters much). Maybe the two elements need to be more clearly connected? Could you have taken this from a position where they ended up physically closer in the frame, or where the white water would have tied them together?

I do like this, the textures of the rock and soft light are nice. I just think there might have been something better?

This is a technically accomplished image. The details are well preserved and presented and the subtle variation of tones is quite nicely handled. However, I am left with a mixed opinion of the image because I find it very ambiguous. The darkness of the presentation seems to suggest a foreboding mood, yet the place seems quite open and nonthreatening. On the other hand, it doesn't make me want to spend time here or explore this space further. As a result, I feel the photo has little impact on me as a viewer and I don't really desire to spend longer with it. 

I like the feeling here created by your layered presentation and evidence of 'use'. The image brings to mind ideas of religious relics. The image itself becoming some sort of long-cherished icon very much like its subject.

Jeff, 

I do remember having a hard time finding somewhere to pull over and then waiting an eternity to cross the highway to take this. It is an amazing and inspiring tree, don't you think?

I am also amazed whenever I discover that two of us have unwittingly taken very similar images.

Russ Murphy left comments on two of my other images when he discovered such similarities (follow the URLs for some surprisingly similar comps.):

http://photo.net/photodb/photo?photo_id=8058443

http://photo.net/photodb/photo?photo_id=7619943

My most amazing experience of this is with this image: http://photo.net/photodb/photo?photo_id=7670341 .

That tree is out in the middle of the Owyhee plateau in remote Eastern Oregon, on a corner of a dirt track going to Leslie Gulch. It doesn't get many visitors and yet, within the same year, Marc Adamus photographed it: http://www.marcadamus.com/images/large/Chosen-One.jpg

Anyways, thanks for the comments.

Part of a project exploring space and place in Toronto's Portlands

area. Feel free to view the other images by clicking to see the rest

of this folder and three other related folders in my portfolio.

Comments on this image or the work in general are appreciated.

Reverse:

This from my recent night work. Comments welcomed.

I was interested in the juxtapositions inherent to the scene and

within how I chose to render it here: the implied violence of the

marks and the glowing cross, the strong geometry and the soft colours.

Thanks for your attention.

I usually hate making crop-suggestions, but I am compelled to say that I quite like Peter's crop. It solves many of the issues I have with the image and it has a more pleasing flow for my eye to follow.

Too bad: this image is from the corpus of a man with a generally spectacular portfolio; yet, I too find it fairly ho-hum. The sky is largely uninteresting, the sea stacks are too small in the frame to have weight, and I am at a loss as to whether the foam swirls or the starfish are the intended point of focus.

I wonder how this got chosen when there were so many other options in Kah Kit's portfolio.

Nice. I used to shoot HIE. This is better than I ever got with it – you've managed to put the grain to good purpose!

The blowing grasses are a delightful subject for this technique.