If you look to your left (south) instead of west, the scene in my last image appears.
The reason I looked for it was that I once saw an Edward Weston photo of that side area. After I made my shot, I searched for Edward's version for a long time. When I finally found it, I decided I liked my version better than his,
Yet Weston's version (now being considered in this thread as the 'not quite as good' version) is still expected to sell for between $15k and $20k according to that link..?
Sorry Eric, I am not trying to wind you up here honest and I can agree with what you are saying about your image in so many ways, as I am sure your version will probably be of a higher resolution, shot through better quality equipment and with far better glass etc, and with a better and much wider tonal rendition and just an all round better quality image. Which then begs the question, is Weston's work seen as more valuable simply because he got there first and which he probably didn't, in fact I would bet money on this exact same view having been photographed many times before Weston shot it. Or is it simply because he has an established 'name' in photography as agreed by the critics? In other words, if we can compare images on quality alone, which to my eye in this instance are almost exactly alike and taken from near enough the same tripod holes, then why is one image worth so much more than the other? - again I am not trying to wind you up here Eric and say that your image has no value, I am actually trying to ask a real question here for my own edification, because if the two images are to all intents highly comparable to point of being almost identical, then why aren't the values broadly similar? Which makes me think any photograph that is worth anything to collectors and joe public etc, is simply about the name of the photographer and nothing else, which I suppose we all knew already. But which I still find none the less more than a little disappointing, because that means that no matter how good any of our work actually is, or even how original it is, it will still never be worth anything more than the paper it is printed on, if no one knows who the hell you or I are, which again I suppose we already knew.
Dave