Tuesday, May 08, 2007
Back!
After the great welcome I got here I found nothing better to do than vanish. I apologize for that mark of rudeness. Different things happened: a new job that proves as demanding as it is interesting, a new apartment means I am in the middle of a moving and I started doing some portraiture, a project I had for a long time. It started with a book of 13 different people that of course took much more time than anticipated. The book has generated a few orders I am now in the process of scheduling.
I come back with some more recent work. This is not a natural for me because it takes me a long time to decide a photograph is worth to print and show to others. By a long time I mean between a few weeks and a few years, either being uncommon. More like a good 6 months.
This one was taken last Winter. I like the way the lines in the sky seem to show the way. I liked the light, the moment, the atmosphere.
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And welcome back, too.
That sky is crazy good. It creates a second vanishing point to match the road.
I'm interested in the fact that the high viewpoint doesn't lead me down the road. I'm clearly not walking here. So, whilst it is compositionally similar to a number of my photographs, it nonetheless has a different feel.
Changing job on its own constitutes a good reason not to be able to get to a computer; moving house as well makes it a near impossibility! Anyway, good to see you back.
That sky deserves the treatment it gets; it hardly needs the land. I also like the crispness of the land caught by the lowish sun and the block of dark trees serving as a surrogate horizon. It's a pity that the small hill in the distance is right up against the edge as it feels as though the road has thrown it there. One feels, though, that the landscape at this point has been well rendered, even if I have a sneaking suspicion that landscape format might have done slightly more.
Good luck with the book.
I love the sky, but the apparent smoothness of it doesn't seem to fit with the grittiness of the foreground. Were different sharpening levels applied, or is something else going on here.
Welcome back.
The image has a rather gritty feel about it.
I love the sense of recession in the furrows, road and sky. Everything takes me to the right.
Welcome back -- and back with dramatic flair. Very expansive feeling with all that lovely sky and distance -- everything leading to one place on the right. Like flying over the road. Almost dizzying.
That sky is at odds with the direction of the beautifully textured road. I'm not sure what it is about the various angles at play but the main two don't seem to go very well with each other. Not that I'm complaining as it keeps me looking in both halves of the picture to try and work out some conformity.
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That sky is crazy good. It creates a second vanishing point to match the road.
I'm interested in the fact that the high viewpoint doesn't lead me down the road. I'm clearly not walking here. So, whilst it is compositionally similar to a number of my photographs, it nonetheless has a different feel.
That sky deserves the treatment it gets; it hardly needs the land. I also like the crispness of the land caught by the lowish sun and the block of dark trees serving as a surrogate horizon. It's a pity that the small hill in the distance is right up against the edge as it feels as though the road has thrown it there. One feels, though, that the landscape at this point has been well rendered, even if I have a sneaking suspicion that landscape format might have done slightly more.
Good luck with the book.
The image has a rather gritty feel about it.
I love the sense of recession in the furrows, road and sky. Everything takes me to the right.