Grassi Lakes, Alberta

[sdwilsonsct]

Feedback welcome. Is #1 too busy?

[thierrylegros396]

Yes number 1 is a bit busy, and I find that the white snow in the foreground draws the attention.

My prefered is number 2 in the abstract series.

Thierry

[nma]

I would favor #1 if you cropped out the snow in the FG.

[churly]

#1 is not too busy for me.  The bright snow in the foreground is a bit of a problem but rather than crop it I would try to recover a bit more structure.
I think I actually favor #3 because of the motion.  I seem to have a bit of a hangup on movement and implied movement right now.
Chuck

[Jens Peermann]

#3 is my favorite because it has a clear subject and is well composed. The blue/purples hues need to be reigned in, though.

[sarrasani]

all the imager are IMHO very pleasurable to see.
In the 1 I don't like particullary the contribution od the lower snow zone.
My fave is 2.
All the best,
sandro

[mseawell]

I like the 2nd capture. Composition and subject matter are really on point!

Mark

[Bob_B]

I also like the third photo, and agree with Jen's suggestion about the colors.FWIW, when I first viewed your post, I favored the second image (and still like it), but the sticks and other things under the water's surface (right side) kept distracting my eye. What was abstract became real, and that bothered me. Just me, I guess.

[vartkes]

The image #1 is the only one that is identifiable as Grassi Lakes. I really like the upper 2/3rds of the image; I would crop most of the snow area in the foreground. It is distracting from the composition and the beautiful light in the subject area.
Images #2 and #3 are abstractions from subject at the lake and do not belong with the #1. There is a lot to read into both of these images. They would reside in a folio of images (perhaps 8 to 10) that weave a story of develop a subject that is the underlying purpose of such a folio.

[muntanela]

I prefer the second one, I would like to see a photo taken from the small peninsula covered with snow on the left or even from the boulder (if it were possible to put feet and tripod there.)

[brandtb]

Scott - the really interesting visual story/elements in the first are are in the upper half...the curve, the color, shapes etc. The white areas and their adjacent lines just distract lead the viewer away from the upper half and make for clutter. Sometimes the brightest areas (with exceptions) in an image draw the eye first - and in this instance they do, but don't really draw the eye to anything nearly as interesting as that above it. I don't know if this is crop or not...I prob. would have framed for more trees in bg and less foreground snow. /B

[francois]

I have a preference for the first one although the foreground isn't helping. But the colors in the water are magical.

[sdwilsonsct]

Many thanks for confirming my suspicions that #1 is too wide. I fell in love with the patterns in the snow (springs) pointing towards the rock and kept backing up. I have tighter and higher versions and will explore these.

I completely failed to capture the fish lurking in the open windows in the ice just beyond the rock.

Perhaps processing on a calibrated monitor instead of my traveling ipad will address the tones in #3.