Monday, November 13, 2006
Fire Lines
We came across this scene soon after entering Yellowstone National Park this year. I believe the fire damage was from the 1988 fires that hit the park. I was completely struck by the strong black vertical lines, so much so that it almost stopped being a woodland scene, like someone had taken a harsh brush and started manically painting black lines across the world. I spent some time shooting, which wasn't as popular with the family as one might imagine. Yes, I was surprised too......
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A very interesting photo indeed both pictorially and as a piece of natural history. It would good to see it larger. It is amazing that there has been no regeneration of the trees and, from the evidence here, not that much vegetation (unless there was a drought at the time). The capture allows one to see a long way back past so many trunks, rather like a petrified forest under the sea. Your rendering makes it look wintery - a nice bit of irony given its actual fate.
I had it down as being wintry, is it not?
The starkness of it appeals to me.
On the envy front it also appeals because I am surrounded by woodland but seem incapable of producing images of the forest that really wow me. (practice more!)
No not winter...summer in fact. I've had real trouble making a 'performance' out of this that I'm really satisfied with.
As for regeneration, some parts have done rather better than others. From what I could see the park was on the mend.
I'd not say detached, but there's a directness to this that could be read that way. I'm reminded of the way some chefs plate their dishes. Not a bad thing necessarily.
I see barcodes and also a sense of winter.
This is a picture that any amount of work and presentation on screen will not do it justice. It needs to be printed and at a rather large size.
It's playing so many tricks with me. The strong verticals do not take me out of the picture as the delicate horizontals bring me back for closer investigation. I have no idea of scale here. I'm assuming these to be quite small - but with no reference of how high these are is confusing my guesses.
Well seen, well executed and well done!
I suspect Matt's comments are aimed at my shells picture!
'Fire Lines' is disorienting, threatening and utterly wonderful.
Hmm, that's weird. Wonder how that comment ended up here. I've noticed that blogger seems to double a number of my comments, but this is a new one.
I'll just echo Colin's comment. "Disorienting, threatening and utterly wonderful" indeed. I'm a sucker for pictures in this vein, but I can never seem to take them myself. Well done.
Matt: I think Blogger is winding just about everybody up at the moment. Lost postings, days on end with no publishing, scrambled databases. So far we have got off lightly with 'Stills'. I haven't quite fully rescued my other blogs yet.
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The starkness of it appeals to me.
On the envy front it also appeals because I am surrounded by woodland but seem incapable of producing images of the forest that really wow me. (practice more!)
As for regeneration, some parts have done rather better than others. From what I could see the park was on the mend.
This is a picture that any amount of work and presentation on screen will not do it justice. It needs to be printed and at a rather large size.
It's playing so many tricks with me. The strong verticals do not take me out of the picture as the delicate horizontals bring me back for closer investigation. I have no idea of scale here. I'm assuming these to be quite small - but with no reference of how high these are is confusing my guesses.
Well seen, well executed and well done!
'Fire Lines' is disorienting, threatening and utterly wonderful.
I'll just echo Colin's comment. "Disorienting, threatening and utterly wonderful" indeed. I'm a sucker for pictures in this vein, but I can never seem to take them myself. Well done.