Thin Red Ribbon

[Bruce Cox]

 What?

[luxborealis]

I'm afraid you've totally lost me on this one. Don't bother trying to explain since if it needs explaining then either I'm too dumb to understand or the photograph wasn't clearly executed in the first place.

[Eric Myrvaagnes]

Maybe it belongs in the Abstract thread?

[ripgriffith]

It's quite beautiful and certainly does not need an explanation.  The thin red ribbon makes the image.

[RSL]

[Eric Myrvaagnes]

+1.

[Bruce Cox]

Unlike the postal card, which I placed on the ground, I did not place the shell and ribbon on this tree. 

I put the card with notation on the ground to better show what it was.  I put the tree, ribbon, and shell in darkness to better show what they are. 

Sometimes it works; sometimes it does't.

[RSL]

I'd assume you thought it worked this time since you posted it.

[Bruce Cox]

I'd assume you thought it worked this time since you posted it.

Yes, and there are still a few more times to come.

Bruce

[amolitor]

It probably shows only that I have an impossibly dirty mind, but I am getting a reference to female genitals here.

I don't know if that makes it better or worse. It's still a puzzlement for sure. Puzzles are frustrating if they appear to have a solution, but one cannot work it out. This one does not strike me as a puzzle with a solution, more of a koan then. Something to ponder and take away what you will.

[Slobodan Blagojevic]

This one is actually quite a beautiful photograph. I first saw in on my iPhone and, quite frankly, couldn't get it. Then I saw it on my 27" desktop. Dark, ominous, elegiac and beautifully processed. I can see it on the wall of a (really) fine art gallery, possibly going for many thousands. All you need is a body of (similar) work.


P.S. Contrary to what most of you expect from me, I am not kidding, nor being sarcastic :-)

[petermfiore]

Bruce,

I like your image very much. graphically very strong.

Peter

[cjogo]

Unlike the postal card, which I placed on the ground, I did not place the shell and ribbon on this tree. 

I put the card with notation on the ground to better show what it was.  I put the tree, ribbon, and shell in darkness to better show what they are. 

Sometimes it works; sometimes it does't.

WELL ...it works ; -}

[Harald L]

It's just a picture and I like it a lot because of it's subtle play with forms and colors. It doesn't tell a story but heck, must a picture telling a story to be a good one?!?

Harald

[ripgriffith]

Unlike the postal card, which I placed on the ground, I did not place the shell and ribbon on this tree. 

What postal card?

[Bruce Cox]

What postal card?

If you scroll down to "Notation" last posted on 4/17/2014, it's in there.

[Bruce Cox]

This one is actually quite a beautiful photograph. I first saw in on my iPhone and, quite frankly, couldn't get it. Then I saw it on my 27" desktop. Dark, ominous, elegiac and beautifully processed. I can see it on the wall of a (really) fine art gallery, possibly going for many thousands. All you need is a body of (similar) work.


P.S. Contrary to what most of you expect from me, I am not kidding, nor being sarcastic :-)

Similar body of work!  Great, why couldn't you like the usual "work the edge" junk that I post.  Now, I'll have to learn to love chiaroscuro. 

Which woun't be easy, so those people who didn't like this image should know that I appreciate them too, when I say: Thank You All

Bruce

[ripgriffith]

This one is actually quite a beautiful photograph. I first saw in on my iPhone and, quite frankly, couldn't get it. Then I saw it on my 27" desktop. Dark, ominous, elegiac and beautifully processed. I can see it on the wall of a (really) fine art gallery, possibly going for many thousands. All you need is a body of (similar) work.

Well said!

[Eric Myrvaagnes]

I rather like the image, and I had no difficulty identifying the shell and the tree, but my eyes won't let me find the "thin red ribbon" anywhere.

I expect it would look great in a large print.

[ripgriffith]

I rather like the image, and I had no difficulty identifying the shell and the tree, but my eyes won't let me find the "thin red ribbon" anywhere.

I expect it would look great in a large print.

It connects  the top of the shell to the tree.