Friday, June 27, 2008
Walking the glen (6)
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I always get disappointed when places where one expects more water turn out to contain not much more than puddles. So, here, the stones brutalise the reflections of the trees. As a result this is a very real picture.
What I feel most about the image is the quiet and the stillness. It also feels cool and somehow like waiting for some one or some thing.
I love the contrast between textures—shiny, smooth and hard compared to soft and velvety. The shapes of the trees cropped in that manner are wonderful. I would never have been clever enough to do that. I'm also quite taken with the way the rocks repeat in the midst of the soft green, uppper left, and then the green "velvet" sneaks down into the rocks, lower right. What lovely symmetry.
The strong diagonal invites me to move. But, I'm not going anywhere. I'm happy to linger.
A wonderful landscape and I really like how the rocks frame the water and the reflected sky and the top of the trees. It reminds me of your car mirror photographs, to look here, but also able see up there.
A very nice balance and tonality is right on for me.
John - a lot more water here today. So much so that I wouldn't have been able to get to this vantage point.
I look out for these odd dry spells to be able to cross the river at different points and get to places that would otherwise not be reachable.
In this case I'd been all the way across and was returning when I spotted this pic. There was a bright blue rucksack up against that central tree :-) Luckily the light waited.
"Brutalise" - not a word I'd use when describing a photograph but I think it may now become one! That reflection is so delicate compared to its surroundings. It's also at odds with its green background which is rather subdued. A little oasis in the desert as it were..?
That little patch of blue sky reflected in the water disturbs me for some reason. I'm having a hard time working it into what, on the evidence of the rest of the picture, looks like a somewhat duller day.
I like the exclusion of the sky from the tree line and its containment in the reflection.
For me it is all about that reflection.
If you don't like the weather wait five minutes?
I'm with Rex. For me, the reflection is a key part of the image and the framing showing me only the bottoms of the trees works beautifully to keep me in the image.
It is interesting to see the rocks in the creek bed as they are and then notice those on the other bank are covered in green, they have been softened but you know they are still there.
Green wedge, rocky wedge with vertical tree shapes in the water and top half sewing the 2 together. In that respect I think the water reflected sky and trees is important.
Such lovely colors -- as usual it is so very real, the scene becomes alive. Even the rocks live. I see nothing brutal here.
The foreground rock in the left corner with moss in its cracks, the small feathery fern "flower" near the water on the right, and the pure white reflection in the center are just a few of the details that attract me. It is good the light waited for you.
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I love the contrast between textures—shiny, smooth and hard compared to soft and velvety. The shapes of the trees cropped in that manner are wonderful. I would never have been clever enough to do that. I'm also quite taken with the way the rocks repeat in the midst of the soft green, uppper left, and then the green "velvet" sneaks down into the rocks, lower right. What lovely symmetry.
The strong diagonal invites me to move. But, I'm not going anywhere. I'm happy to linger.
A very nice balance and tonality is right on for me.
I look out for these odd dry spells to be able to cross the river at different points and get to places that would otherwise not be reachable.
In this case I'd been all the way across and was returning when I spotted this pic. There was a bright blue rucksack up against that central tree :-) Luckily the light waited.
For me it is all about that reflection.
If you don't like the weather wait five minutes?
Green wedge, rocky wedge with vertical tree shapes in the water and top half sewing the 2 together. In that respect I think the water reflected sky and trees is important.
The foreground rock in the left corner with moss in its cracks, the small feathery fern "flower" near the water on the right, and the pure white reflection in the center are just a few of the details that attract me. It is good the light waited for you.