Waiting on Shore

[seamus finn]

This piece of sculpture is entitled 'Waiting on Shore'. It represents all the women down the ages who waited in vain on shore for their sea-going loved ones to return home safely. It's located at Rosses Point, Sligo and is more or less straight out of the camera on an amazing evening of light there.

[WalterEG]

Simple, beautiful and evocative.

[RSL]

Another winner, Seamus. Again, bravo!

[Rob C]

What they said!

Rob C

[Riaan van Wyk]

Simple, beautiful and evocative.
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My thoughts too. 

[Christoph C. Feldhaim]

Very nice.
Well done !

[Eric Myrvaagnes]

What everybody else said.
Really nice.

[wolfnowl]

All been said.  Congrats!

Mike.

[cjogo]

Perfect ---~!  For fun "move " the sun between her hands :-)

[Slobodan Blagojevic]

As usual, I'll dissent.

I find the image too "pretty," too postcard-ish, too orange-y blue-y, to convey the longing, loneliness, possibly tragedy, implied in the monument. I would probably go for a different treatment: possibly gritty b&w, or bleached color? Something that creates the same sense of uneasiness I feel when I think of the concept embodied in the monument. I hope you do not mind the lone dissenting voice, Seamus?

[sdwilsonsct]

Lovely sunset, nice composition, but I agree with Slobodan (!) that a less happy sky would fit better.

[brandtb]

Nice image...but one thing that is a little bothersome  to me is that there is not enough of  that "wedge of black" at bottom right of frame...it is almost like the figure is standing on the bottom edge of the picture plane. I think a fraction more of that and a little less off the top...would suit the image.  /B

[seamus finn]

As usual, I'll dissent.

I find the image too "pretty," too postcard-ish, too orange-y blue-y, to convey the longing, loneliness, possibly tragedy, implied in the monument. I would probably go for a different treatment: possibly gritty b&w, or bleached color? Something that creates the same sense of uneasiness I feel when I think of the concept embodied in the monument. I hope you do not mind the lone dissenting voice, Seamus?

Not in the slightest,Slobodan.

[Bruce Cox]

I like number two; thanks for showing it.

[RSL]

They're both very fine pictures but they're very different pictures. I find the color version more moving than the B&W. I'm not quite sure why, but it has something to do with the fact that though the sun is sinking, the beautiful sky tells us there's still a modicum of hope left. In the B&W all hope is lost. The B&W reminds me of a haiku I wrote many years ago:

   Her needle pauses,
   Eyes searching the empty sea.
   A wind is rising.

[bdosserman]

As usual, I'll dissent.

I find the image too "pretty," too postcard-ish, too orange-y blue-y, to convey the longing, loneliness, possibly tragedy, implied in the monument. I would probably go for a different treatment: possibly gritty b&w, or bleached color? Something that creates the same sense of uneasiness I feel when I think of the concept embodied in the monument. I hope you do not mind the lone dissenting voice, Seamus?

I can see this point of view, but for me, the sunset is more evocative of drama than of generic prettiness, so I think it works well for the context. If anything, the setting sun is a metaphor for the onset of darkness, no?

Brian

[seamus finn]

If anything, the setting sun is a metaphor for the onset of darkness, no?

Yes. In the colour version, with the setting sun at her feet and the heavens lit up as they are, there is hope, but once that light dies, as it soon will, all hope dies with it and the new dawn will bring only despair.

[stamper]

This is one of the best images  -imo - seen on the site for a long time. Colour is the winner. There is more emotion in the colour version than the B&W. Definitely no nit picks from me. I don't believe an image should be perfect. 

[WalterEG]

It may seem quite strange for me to say this ..... but in this instance it is the colour and not the B&W that holds the magic.

[RSL]

It may seem quite strange for me to say this .....

Yes, it does, Walter. But it shows that you're not unreasonably biased.