Harmony

[Chris Calohan]

I am having a debate with myself as to whether this shows better in the above more abstract composition, or nearly full frame (below) as it came from the camera. More and more I am trying to get the final image directly from the camera with minimal editing.

[francois]

FWIW, I prefer the first image. As you wrote, it's more abstract… It lets me imagine what's beyond or outside the frame of the image. The second version (uncropped?), while very nice, leaves nothing to my imagination.

[sdwilsonsct]

I like the big background of #2, and the shapes are sufficiently distorted, partial, and varied to get my attention.

[degrub]

Since the title was "harmony", i looked for a relationship in the image. i like the one formed by the tan carp and the minnows above. i cropped in to just the tan carp. Otherwise, to me,  the minnows seemed to distract from your intent.

[Chris Calohan]

My intent with the titel was Harmony in Nature. However, I think (especially in the full frame image) the harmony is manifested in the flow of the swirls, the movement of the larger Koi, the continuation of roundness in the water lily and all offset by this natural meandering of the minnows.

[shutterpup]

What I find most interesting is the water pattern on the left side of the second photo. Now that is a great abstract. The others are ok.

[graeme]

Loveley image - I prefer the crop.

Graeme