One more for the day - Juniper Abstract

[Chris Calohan]

Hideous fore and background but I didn't want to lose the light, pattern and texture of this shot so on some advice, I cropped this fairly severely. Even so, I think it actually works better compositionally this way than it would as a full image regardless of the fore and backgrounds.

[francois]

Very nice shot! I like the luxuriant greens the alternating dark and light tones.
The panoramic crop seems appropriate here.

[Rob C]

This is where I really see the future for landscape photography: the abandonment of the obvious in favour of the motif, the idea of something rather than a full-on confrontation with what is. Everybody knows what is; it's the subtleties that are sometimes out of sight to the casual eye.

Believe it or not, it's the same with people shots, which is why porn falls on its ass whereas the star shooters can make it an adventure in the beautiful. You only need to work with a few really successful models to understand this pretty quickly; none is perfect and it's the ability to project, to reveal something that's not all surface, that brings home the bacon.

I hope this sort of landscape thrives.

Rob C

[Chris Calohan]

This is where I really see the future for landscape photography: the abandonment of the obvious in favour of the motif, the idea of something rather than a full-on confrontation with what is. Everybody knows what is; it's the subtleties that are sometimes out of sight to the casual eye.

Believe it or not, it's the same with people shots, which is why porn falls on its ass whereas the star shooters can make it an adventure in the beautiful. You only need to work with a few really successful models to understand this pretty quickly; none is perfect and it's the ability to project, to reveal something that's not all surface, that brings home the bacon.

I hope this sort of landscape thrives.

Rob C

I often drive about the countryside, or even in the city looking just for this type of image. I adore subtlety as well as the simplicty of light and shadow. This image was not more than a block from my house and to get the shot, I had to stop my car in traffic, open the side window and shoot a much broader shot than I intended. Honking horns never given a second thought....