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Nice idea, Steve. The soft forms are really well perceived and composed. Interesting how the droplets get fixed on the screen and allow the background to remain relatively sharp or defined, whereas drops on a window usually run and create a more out of focus effect. 

A perfect contrast between dinosaurs and modern man, the latter leaving the past and heading toward his future. Very nice composite, Pierre, and a nice unobstrusive ("professional!") camera bag. 

Great. I love it. As an abstract expression it certainly complies with good chromatic and texture compositional values. I wondered about the red area being on the top rather than the bottom, but either sense works well I think. Jon, keep up your approach related to these combined scenes involving man made and nature made artifacts.

I was told that several generations of children of the family went up and

down these stairs to the attic bedroom. They seem to give a spirit of place.

What do you think?

Bela, I forgot to mention to you that the image also includes another very small part of the dismantled roof structure in the upper left corner. Both it and the door frame to the extreme right are very small visual elements in comparison to the principal subject of the beauty of the carpenter's joints and the axe cut log texture. Perhaps these very minor elements, like the small stone foundation presence below, tell us that this is a building, and not some other structure? 

Bela, thanks for taking the time to view my photo and your critique. Reframing the image gives it a very different composition and overall effect when considering the main subjects or intent of the image to be simply the shed and the rail fence. However, what I intend by the image was not just that but primarily an evocation of the expanse and lonely ambience of this probably marginal bit of farmland. Contrary to it being unnecessary, the left side is quite important for me. I wanted the shed to be in the middle of the frame to underscore its isolation or questionable function. I might have made the photo from a greater distance if other physical constraints (another building) had not prevented me from doing that. The rail fence is a secondary subject providing an age reference to the farmland but I think that if it was not there the effect I was aiming and the meaning of the image would still be retained.

Again, thanks for your comment, which is appreciated and that shows that differing meanings can be taken from any one photograph. 

Thank you Tony, I agree about how some simple things end up being aesthetically impressive. We are lucky here to have a sort of vernacular architecture that seems to blend well with the farm landscapes. Unfortunately a lot of rail fences are disappearing and are replaced by metal post and wire ones.  

Agreeable wide angle image in which the height of the obelisk (?) is echoed by the upward mounting steps to the government building in the foreground (US SEnate?) and your light and dark masses in the frame balance very well. If I have only one wish it would be to see just a little more space on the right side. I would also have liked to click on the image to see a larger one. However, a very nice perception and capture.

Henry, very soft image and texture. I prefer your treatment in "Come and gone" in your Baltic countries series, as the composition and subject matter is more arresting there, while the tones are not totally different to these. As nice as this one is, I think it is missing something and perhaps needs a secondary (maybe primary) small subject matter, to complement the tones and river bend. I see a brown cloaked farmer in the distance to the right, or a small mound of earth. But I appreciate your sensitivity to color tones that go well together.

Exploring B&W IR of a color image having prominent greens. Does it

convey to you something different to the color version?

Thanks Pierre and Jon. I am glad you noticed the "nostalgia" or longing for times past aspect, as it is chosen to go with others in a little exhibition I am planning on the theme "spirit of place."

Thank you Gregory and Verena. Timber framer symbols are intriguing, and necessary, as most of their work, including roof framing, was carried out and tested at ground level before mounting.

Good observation, Bela. It is a cropped image so it wouldn't be bad to go back and reframe it slightly. I like the central composition to highlight the craftsman's art. It is also more graphic than the same photo in colour. 

Thank you Sandy. I hope that the building will be reconstructed elsewhere and live on. So many around here are being taken apart to simply satisfy the need for retro basement decoration, creating swish hotel lobby ambiance, or as elements for reconstitution of other similar buildings (a better use in my humble opinion). Prior to mass availability of industrial saws, the squared beams or logs were roughly chisel and axe cut (an aspect of their beauty, nonetheless) but in some cases expertly jointed like this one. The only other work of this quality I have recently seen was in a Loire valley chateau's timber frame restoration, where equally fine incisions were made in the repaired and jointed pieces. But they no doubt had a larger budget than this timberman.  

One role of photography is to open up our consciousness to these creations. 

Very nicely done, Bela. The shadow and clarity give a depth to the subject matter and an airworthiness to the wooden "horse." I envy your post exposure capability. 

The old house was undergoing demolition that exposed its square log

structure. They often say that old timber frames resemble ships. If this one

does, it is due mainly to the 21mm lens I used. Thanks for looking and

your comments are always appreciated.

The ancient markings were uncovered during the demolition of this old

house when the outer planks had been removed. They are each different

and represent a traditional way that the timber framer assembled his

beautiful dovetail joints in the right order.

Like old graffiti they create a memory of place and lost traditions. Your

comments are appreciated

I have seen views of Percé Quebec with the second house and cross against the sky, but this is the first I have seen including the two rock outcrops and houses. Nicely photographed with a moderate telephoto setting and probably from a boat. It has your usual excellent lighting direction choice and full tonality. I might have liked to see a little more of the truncated upper cloud and a bit more to the left of the image, but on second thought that would likely remove some of the drama of the present framing. Nice to see images of this site that are not just those of the more well known Percé Rock.

Thank you Ken,

I saw the spider web as a symbol of a place not often visited and the awaiting bench in a similar light. Sometimes out of focus is as interesting as sharp subject matter, but perhaps just my taste.

Perhaps the carpenter had to repair his work occasionally? Thank you for

your critique.

Jack and Pierre, thank you. I wish this phenomenon would happen more often and allow other visual perceptions/possibilities.

Hi Jack and Bela, thank you for  your comments. 

Jack, apart from the ear section, the rest looks a little foreboding like the tentacles of some mythical underground creature. Situated in a sculpture garden outside an auditorium of a summer music festival in Canada the sculpture has the unlikely name of "mémoire vive" which I think is the French word for rapid access memory (RAM) or live memory. I hope it doesn't keep me in its memory as I would like to go back.