ice edge

[Jeremy Roussak]

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Jeremy

[Dave (Isle of Skye)]

I know this defeats the whole object of the original shot to show the larger landscape, but as soon as I saw your image Jeremy, I saw what is to my mind, a really strange but captivating abstract hidden within it.

So please forgive me for messing around with your image, but this 'crop' seemed to just jump out at me..

Dave

[Slobodan Blagojevic]

Yep, not a bad idea. Maybe even a square crop.

[francois]

I like both the original and Dave's version although they are very different.

[stamper]

The original for me. Very nice.

[Jeremy Roussak]

Dave, I read the text of your reply on my phone but since I don't log in I couldn't see the suggestion. I knew immediately what you were suggesting, though: I'd wondered about an abstract crop. I quite like it, but I prefer it with context.

Jeremy

[Eric Myrvaagnes]

I prefer it with context also.

[Rajan Parrikar]

The original is wonderful.

[Tony Jay]

The original is wonderful.

I think that Dave's cop is good but I am with Rajan here - the original is wonderful...

[farbschlurf]

The original for me. Very nice.

Yes, I like the wider view a lot.

[MattBurt]

I like it and I'm usually a fan of context too. I could see the opportunity for the abstract shot too but it doesn't have to be this one.

[Rayyan]

Pleasing viewing.
I don’t look for patterns and figures in the clouds....not most of the time anyway.

Me like.

[Chris Calohan]

As much as I like abstract, I don't care for the crop version as I think there isn't enough context to pull the two areas together.

[cgarnerhome]

While we're cropping here is another possibility

[Jeremy Roussak]

While we're cropping here is another possibility

I appreciate the input, but it doesn't work. You've cropped off the small black clouds, at which the line of the ice edge was pointing, and the layer of black could at the top which closed off the image and mirrored the dark sea at the bottom.

Jeremy

[cgarnerhome]

That's what I love about photography as only the shooter knows what they were trying to accomplish.  I now get why you cropped it that way.  Well done.  I saw the jagged edge of the ice mimicking the ridge line of the mountains so I was trying to simply the image to accentuate that.  I do like yours better.

[Jeremy Roussak]

That's what I love about photography as only the shooter knows what they were trying to accomplish.  I now get why you cropped it that way.  Well done.  I saw the jagged edge of the ice mimicking the ridge line of the mountains so I was trying to simply the image to accentuate that.  I do like yours better.

Interestingly, I'm not sure that I was conscious of the reasons for my framing my shot in that way until I saw your proposed crop and started to analyse for myself why I didn't like it. So thanks, Cam: I have learned something too.

Jeremy