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The Art of Photography => User Critiques => Topic started by: stamper on February 09, 2015, 04:27:42 am

Title: Tombstone
Post by: stamper on February 09, 2015, 04:27:42 am

A walk on the Wild Side.

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Post by: mbaginy on February 09, 2015, 05:15:16 am

Nice and moody, like the colors & silhouettes.

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Post by: muntanela on February 09, 2015, 05:16:53 am

Someway friedrichian.

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Post by: SanderKikkert on February 09, 2015, 05:17:58 am

Nice and moody indeed, well done. Regards, Sander

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Post by: francois on February 09, 2015, 06:44:04 am

Love the silhouettes!

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Post by: RSL on February 09, 2015, 08:54:02 am

Splendid, Stamper. Bravo! Wish I'd shot that.

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Post by: Eric Myrvaagnes on February 09, 2015, 09:10:25 am

Quote from: RSL on February 09, 2015, 08:54:02 am

Splendid, Stamper. Bravo! Wish I'd shot that.

+1.

Title: Re: Tombstone
Post by: stamper on February 09, 2015, 09:13:07 am

Thanks for the feedback. It was the best sunset I had seen in a long time. The Necropolis is on a high hill and has lots of headstones. There aren't any burials taking place anymore and it has become a tourist attraction in Glasgow, Scotland. The trick is to isolate a few headstones and not go too near to the front of the Necropolis because as you can see in the image that the modern Glasgow is starting to show and clutters the mid ground.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Glasgow_Necropolis

A marvellous place to visit. You hear a lot of nationalities conversing with each other. There used to be deer roaming about - despite being in the centre of  Glasgow - but the locals hunted them down with crossbows.

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Post by: RSL on February 09, 2015, 09:44:53 am

I'm not sure that the "modern" Glasgow, cluttering the mid-ground, isn't a plus. Instead of a simple but beautiful picture of an old, old graveyard, we have a contrast between modern, bustling industrialism down there and an old, old, peaceful graveyard up here. It strikes me that there's symbolism in that contrast.

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Post by: Chris Calohan on February 09, 2015, 10:25:44 am

I like it a lot.

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Post by: Harald L on February 09, 2015, 01:27:24 pm

Great story telling. The yellow but somber sky together with the tombstones are making a real doomsday sunset scenario where some emotionless survivors are looking down where the lost souls are burning in their plants.

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Post by: Arlen on February 09, 2015, 06:27:11 pm

Intriguing. And I appreciate the back-story.