Monday, March 26, 2007
Bernera Beach
On the mainland looking at Skye.
Now this is what I call a beach hut :-)
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I suppose the key question here is whether the bottom half of the picture adds or detracts from the whole. I don't think that there is enough of Skye, despite throwing the tree in as well, to overcome the forbidding blur of hedge. The balance of tones is quite attractive and the composition could also appeal if something could substitute for the hedge. Was this taken with a longer focal length?
"I suppose the key question here is whether the bottom half of the picture adds or detracts from the whole"
The foreground is the most interesting aspect of this for me. The scale of it makes the whole picture surreal, as if the hedge is stage on which puppets will begin to play. To continue with that metapahor, the roof line becomes the proscenium. I'm just waiting for the show to start.
The tree -- then the tree repeated smaller in the window, and looking through the windows to the scene beyond are interesting enough. The hedge works well as a sort of frame, but for me, the amount of it and the out of focus part is overpowering, drawing away from where I would prefer to look. I'd probably perfer this with the bottom cropped.
Thanks for the comments all.
For me this is a picture of the hedge. Or rather the way that the hedge dominates the house. It is a non-native (nothing else would cope with the wind and salt and remain neat looking). With no hedge there the house would have no windows at least once a year.
As it is, I imagine that the view from inside the house is dominated by the hedge in much the same way as you see here.
I too was taken in by the hedge. Though the refelctions in the windows were rather attractive too. The hedge reminds me of a saying related to my work (financial derivatives): the only perfect hedge is found in a Japanese Garden. This picture is proof - those wayward upward shoots would not be welcome my side of the world.
I'm assuming the top ridge is a roof and its addition rather compresses the image vertically. Though the tree to the left is only partially shown I still feel very little headroom is available to me.
The fact that the foreground is out of focus adds to the effect as it draws me to the windows where sharpness exisits, focuses my eyes, and then lets me return to the hedge to find more detail...
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The foreground is the most interesting aspect of this for me. The scale of it makes the whole picture surreal, as if the hedge is stage on which puppets will begin to play. To continue with that metapahor, the roof line becomes the proscenium. I'm just waiting for the show to start.
For me this is a picture of the hedge. Or rather the way that the hedge dominates the house. It is a non-native (nothing else would cope with the wind and salt and remain neat looking). With no hedge there the house would have no windows at least once a year.
As it is, I imagine that the view from inside the house is dominated by the hedge in much the same way as you see here.
I'm assuming the top ridge is a roof and its addition rather compresses the image vertically. Though the tree to the left is only partially shown I still feel very little headroom is available to me.
The fact that the foreground is out of focus adds to the effect as it draws me to the windows where sharpness exisits, focuses my eyes, and then lets me return to the hedge to find more detail...