Late night dip?

[KMRennie]

A 15 minute exposure from St. Malo in France. As the long exposure noise reduction was taking the subsequent 15 min "dark frame" an outward bound sailing ship passed across the frame just beyond the diving board, nothing I could do and nobody would have believed the result anyway. Ken

[John R]

Outstanding. I especially like how the white of the water is surrounded by a darker water, allowing an amorphous shape to be created. This adds interest and tonal contrast.

JR

[graeme]

That's a cracker. Well done.

[francois]

Clean of any unneeded element, this is a powerful image.
Bravo

[luxborealis]

Beautiful, rich glow to the water. Fascinating. Will surely cause viewers to stop and ponder.

[KMRennie]

Thanks for the comments. I am still experimenting with this minimalist thing so any positive comments keep me going. This is the same file without the sky cropped. I went out to take the image at sunset hoping for the terrific skies of the previous evenings but heavy cloud on the horizon stopped that. I quite like the bright patch of sky and could introduce a little detail into it as well as lightening the dark wedge at the top but it would only add clutter as well as explaining the bright patch. I have also added a very minimalist version. In the end it is only a bit of fun although I may enter the original into some of the more "arty" competitions to see what they make of it. Ken

[francois]

I prefer the first version over the last ones. It's a good balance. Anyway, the original shot can be a source for many fantastic interpretations.

[langier]

Etherial! Neat!

[MattBurt]

Very interesting image. Nicely done! I think the first is my preference too.

[Eric Myrvaagnes]

For me, I keep going back and forth between the original version and the pne with the bright sky area. The third is perhaps too minimalist for my taste. I feel that the strange structure needs some con=text, which the first two variants provide, in different ways.

Excellent experiment.

[John R]

The first creates an imbalance in two ways: the eye is drawn to the heavy dark shape at the expense of the rest of the scene; and the dark sky creates an oblique line that is at odds with the horizon.

The second is fine, IMO. But because we have seen the first post we inevitably compare. I bet enlarged, this second image would look quite mysterious in its own right.

JR

[riverrat373]

Excellent composition!