nicholas_lindan

A lumen print is made by contacting an object to B&W photographic

paper (the silver kind) and exposing it to sunlight for several hours.

The colors are formed by colloidal silver - no developer is used.

The print is dipped in S-30 stabilizer to preserve the color

(somewhat) and then fixed.

Handheld, lying on the back lawn.

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I don't know if it is supposed to be, but it looks much better on its side.

I developed a taste for abstract art when I learned that Mondrian started by painting the windows across the street from his studio. He just kept at it and they became more and more abstract. Until I knew the reason for what he painted I thought his work was just plain silly. I don't know that this photograph stands for something, and I don't think it matters. Though I can't keep from wondering about the notched peice casting the shadow: what is it?

Really superb. I rate 'fine art' by the criteria "would I hang it on the living room wall?" - this one passes the test.

 

However (there's always a 'however'), I would get rid of the two sticks. They're not really sticks, right? It's like dust, twigs on the negative, and can be edited out without comprimising image integrity.

 

I have the same attitude regarding removing power lines.

Very good: _real_ flowers, seeds 'born into corruption' and flowers returning to ashes. Much more interesting than yet another Cala lily. A bit too much photoshop sharpening for my taste, I would re-shoot on 4x5 'chrome to get the detail.

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No manipulation.

 

A colony of captive flamingos have evolved with no legs, gaining a competitive advantage by continously either feeding or caring for their young. This example is building a nest for a new generation of headstanders.

First off, I like the photo: exposure, compistion, subject, etc. etc. etc. with all the that does not matter.

 

The impact on me is the feeling I get of a place that is timeless and more 'real' than that of West: There is an intrusion by man in the prescence of the fence, but the fence (and man) is somehow native to the scene, made from materials at hand - no barbed wire, no posts from "Farmers' Feed and Lumber", no trash caught in the rails. And no EPA, either.

 

A definitive iris.

Very, very, very fine photograph.

 

On the carping side: Sharpness is fine for an 8x10. The white blob in the upper left should be relegated to the status of lint -- even if it was on the original subject: Subjects can have lint, can't they? I like the blue at the left.

 

This picture is close to perfection.

I would crop so the tailight is equally tangent to the frame in three places, rather than the present two - crop the bottom fifth or so. Also move the left border to the left an ooch so it doesn't cut the chrome. As a final tweek I would rotate the image 1/4 degree CCW so the decoration to the right is at a true horizontal.

 

Comments appreciated.

Captures the power of the wave and the beating the rock takes perfectly. The timing of the picture is just on. I once spent several hours and rolls of film trying to capture the explosion of a wave and have since gone back to still life.

 

It looks like a red filter was used, but with a digital camera I imagine the filter is applied in PS? - I'm an old silver in jelly man, so this may be a dumb question.

Very wing-like. At least that is the effect I like here. To that end I would kill the reflections with PS. I might reshoot for more of a wing effect and use black velvet as the substrate.

I pierce, I pierce, I pierce my colandar girl

 

Yeah, holey colandar girl

 

I pierce, I pierce, I pierce my colandar girl

 

Each and every day of the year ....

 

 

Sorry, couldn't resist.

http://www.nps.gov/glac/gallery/parkpics.htm

Sorry, this photo _is_ flipped. The shot is taken from Logan pass. That's Haystack Butte in the distance, sticking out from the wall. To take a shot of Haystack from the other side you would have to take the picture from 50-mountain camp.

I like it. I like it more because it is a 'random shot', seems more truthful somehow. Even though this is , er, 'random' I notice it is well balanced and interesting to the eye.

The Zugspitz ("Train peak" in German) is the highest mountain in

Germany. To commemorate this the Germans built a train tunnel from

the mountain's base to (almost) the peak -- the last segment is

traversed by cable car. Another cable car runs from the base to the

peak. At the peak there is a restaurant, a weather station, an

observation deck .... The Austrians, not to be outdone, ran a cable

car up their side of the mountain. Hence the requirement for a

customs office. In the winter the trains and cable cars are packed

with skiers.

Perfectly executed

Comments always welcome.

The Cleveland Mueseum of Art has since cut down all the trees and replaced them with little saplings. The scene should be available again in fifty years -- but by then the benches will be gone...

Great composition: just the right amount of symetrical asymetry, or something like that... But you don't need me to tell you that. A photo I could hang on my wall and not get tired of.