Luminous Landscape Forum
The Art of Photography => User Critiques => Topic started by: Bruce Cox on April 20, 2014, 11:18:36 pm
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What?
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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.
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Maybe it belongs in the Abstract thread?
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It's quite beautiful and certainly does not need an explanation. The thin red ribbon makes the image.
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+1.
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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.
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I'd assume you thought it worked this time since you posted it.
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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
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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.
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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 :-)
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Bruce,
I like your image very much. graphically very strong.
Peter
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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 ; -}
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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
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Unlike the postal card, which I placed on the ground, I did not place the shell and ribbon on this tree.
What postal card?
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What postal card?
If you scroll down to "Notation" last posted on 4/17/2014, it's in there.
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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
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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!
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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.
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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.
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It connects the top of the shell to the tree.
Thusly.
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OK, got it.
The "red" is too subtle for my color-deficient eyes. But I like the image anyway.
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OK, got it.
The "red" is too subtle for my color-deficient eyes. But I like the image anyway.
I think part of its beauty is in its subtlety. Otherwise it would have this "Hey, look at me, I'm red" quality.
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More subtle than I knew. Not only is Slobodan more perceptive than me, but he is better informed. I am just now seeing the image on a 27" screen that is less old than my fading 24". I may not have to learn to love chiaroscuro after all. Thanks again.
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Not only is it subtle, I'd call it vanishingly subtle.
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Not only is it subtle, I'd call it vanishingly subtle.
I would just say, "look again", or have your monitor recalibrated. I see it fine, with 77 year old myopic, cataractic eyes.
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Oh, I can see it just fine with my 84-year-old eyes, Rip.
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LuLa = The League of Extraordinary Old Gentlemen ? ;)
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LuLa = The League of Extraordinary Old Gentlemen ? ;)
That would LEOG
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