Another non-D800 Image

[RSL]

This isn't up to Chuck's standards by a long shot, but I'm practicing for a D800 image. Tried it in B&W and color, and ended up with color.

[Rob C]

I like it, Russ - pure design.

Puts me in mind of what I guess I was trying to do some time ago with my cellpix images of distressed boat paints. Just shape and colour and nothing to sell.

Rob C

[popnfresh]

It works for me, and I like the colors.

[francois]

I like it too! Well done…

[amolitor]

Great piece of abstract composition, of course, nice colors and textures.

I love it because I literally have no idea of the scale. The vegetation is ambiguous enough that we could be looking at a 100 foot wall, or a 6 inch rock. I think it's the latter, given the title, but visually it strikes me as wonderfully ambiguous.

This one does leave me emotionally unmoved, however. I think perhaps it's not supposed to move me, so I don't intend that as a criticism, just an observation.

[RSL]

Actually it's Garden of the Gods, and the red wall is several hundred feet high. Intended strictly to be an abstract. I even had to do a bit of cropping to get rid of a piece of the road at the bottom, and a tiny chunk of the sky at the upper right edge. You can't pull over in this spot and get out of the car. You have to stop in the middle of the road, shoot out of an open window, and hope nobody comes up and honks while you're doing it.

I'm experimenting with shots I want to re-shoot with my D800, if it ever arrives. That's the nice thing about landscape as opposed to people. It doesn't go away.

[ckimmerle]

I like it, Russ. Of course, I would have done it in b/w and cropped the.....   

[Chairman Bill]

It's OK. I'd have included something to show the hand of man ... 

[RSL]

Okay, Bill, I'm going to violate my own rule and post a not too great picture I shot yesterday. It's the Garden again, but this time the hand of man (or, more accurately, woman) is in it. Right in the middle of the picture there's a gal carrying a kid, and the kid's dressed in red. See her? Right there, Bill!

[Jeremy Roussak]

I even had to do a bit of cropping...

I'm going to add this page to my Bookmarks library!

Jeremy

[Chairman Bill]

Okay, Bill, I'm going to violate my own rule and post a not too great picture I shot yesterday. It's the Garden again, but this time the hand of man (or, more accurately, woman) is in it. Right in the middle of the picture there's a gal carrying a kid, and the kid's dressed in red. See her? Right there, Bill!

I don't see her, but there is a fence, and that counts. The photo is clearly quite immeasurably improved by it. Well done.