Apart from my own photography obviously, I have a weakness for characteristic expressions used by other photographers with their typical and personal imprint in their work, I should say style. I will (not for the first time) reach for example in one modest photographer from Indonesia Rarindra Prakarsa using his old EOS (Rebel) camera. This distinctive (and 'Indonesian') photography has more aspects to contemplate about but I want to particularly mention the intensive colour expression he gives to the certain scenes. He is selective about measuring strong colour saturation and imo pretty accurate with its delivery within his rather compact style.
http://photo.net/photos/rarindraKevin’s image comes to me as being put very well together, which is not an easy thing to do with the emphasis on colour of the elements in the scene (very nice scene..). I would say the image builds on this a lot (put together), whether fun or style leaves me unconcerned. I personally often find strong accent images somewhat unglued in one or more directions for my sense of a successful representation in general. For people that didn’t have the opportunity to see this type of clouds, I can only say that these form in some areas regularly and they do look perhaps even more solid than the ground under them. I am not sure about the light composition (and that is with no pun intended), I like to keep its structure in the scene but feel that the colour was pretty intense. I have just a slight problem with the intensity of blues far on the right side in the woods (turning into shadows) and would lower the blues there a tad.
I will stick a note about the 'Tree On A Hill How to' to this comment, well it’s a B&W and that means a distinctive expression almost by default. The composition is also very expressive which caught my attention but it’s quite close to naive for me and I’d have to see a bit more of the frame but would frame probably a little different. Which would, obviously, result in somewhat a different picture. As the debate seems quite passionate, what a surprise :-) , I will add that different means different in my language, and close means close. When I want to say something of a different meaning, I will.
And one general, I suppose that when a person has a very clear idea about his/her own photography/art it stops looking at work of others through particular glasses but with a view more open for seeing the same principles applied differently, with various aims, approach and motivation.
So his/her enjoyment is truly multidimensional, let’s say :-) and
can (there still are conditions) last while others are lamenting. When things are done very well, no matter how dissimilar to my own vision, I get inspired. It may be in some indefinite way, but I always do. So yes, being confident about one’s own photography (or whatever) and having pretty good idea about it, whether that is spreading wide or is narrowly focused doesn’t matter, helps to see many important elements in work of others and recognize good from less good in much widened perspective and also enjoy it.
