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I read in the comments that one wants to see the stones and another tells about some small irregularities in the sky and the reflection.
I have to say that I think this is a fantastic photo with a spot on the lighting that gives the walls a fantastic look. As for some comments, the imperfections are easy to fix and the stones, well, with the right magnification you get to see plenty of them. Magical and beautiful.
As expected, the comments were easy to resolve, now see the photo here and look forward to your comments.
Oh Pete btw the top photo is the edited one
Lou
As others mentioned you have found a wonderful 100's of photo(s) opportunity here.
Just a quick one, when posting multiple pics it is better to insert a blank line in between them to give them some separation (as I have done above).
I am not a big fan of some modern architecture but I like your shots here. I love the pyramid protrusions amongst the other lines and the clouds add some nice detail to the reflections.
If you can ever go back there, the shot for me would an angled one, similar to the first two, of the longer wall. I say that because, even though the others are interesting, I feel the shorter edge of the building isn't quite 'long' enough. I would love to see the patterns vanishing into the distance.
I hadn't properly taken in this picture until I read your comment Linda. Similarly now I imagine myself hanging out over the edge of some vast cliff, with attendant butterflies in stomach... Great capture.
The shapes are skeletal. I flash to whale strandings on beaches. The skeleton association is so strong that it is difficult not to think of them as having been alive.
I like the proportions used here. The height/width balance feels right to me. It makes the most of the supine positioning of the machinery plus the width of the sky, hills and cloud. There's enough depth on the foreground to give some lines in from the corners towards the background elements and tie them together.
Perhaps the largish front left object is a bit hard and the image would benefit from a little more shadow detail in that area?
Somewhere there's a tipping point but I never know where it is. Early in the process, I get saddened to see machinery abandoned in the country. If it is there long enough, it adds enjoyable history.
A fantastic rock formation with those clearly different white and orange colours !
I like the way you have the green, yellow and red trees in the shot too
It would be interested to hear if you (or anyone else) knows how such formations occur?
I saw something quite similar on a beach in Portuagal, early this year with the same colours, the light was a bit harsh as I was there.
Here's that shot, but I prefer yours :-)
Trevor
I really like your image - it's very effective and the composition and POV add a lot of interesting tension. Something about it was bothering me though... and after some thought I realized that it was the colors, particularly the blue tones. So I've opened the bigger version in browser (already a lot better) and then opened it in Photoshop... and it seems perfect as it is. Excellent work. 👍
Got nothing to add, but it made me realize (again, because someone here has already instructed me how to fix color-managment in my browser, which I absolutely need to try) that the quality of the small preview images on this site is abysmal. I think it only started recently, because to me images look WAY MORE compressed now. Need to ask Alan about that... if it's a cost-saving measure, I'm not sure that's the best thing to do honestly.
Hi Lou,
Wow, I am surprised at the improvement you achieved based only on a poorly processed JPEG! I was only going to start commenting this week when I get home on Sunday, but I can see the improvement even on my phone, so decided to reply to your post now. Thanks for taking the time to do that and for your positive comments.
Thanks a lot for your kind words! It is actually quite ripe and even sweeter than the red ones. They are just a different kind of raspberry.
Thanks a lot for your fascinating interpretation. Indeed, an increased DOF could be interesting. I don't remember if I attempted making one... The difference in color is real though, so as you've stated emphasizing its difference in addition by making the others as blurry as they are is not necessary, just a preference of style (I'm often not too sure about those things and usually trust my gut feeling if I made multiple versions).
My images are often a bit autobiographical... for some reason even those of raspberries. 😂 Just the way my mind works, I guess. Here's another one of the yellow raspberry, empasizing that:
Your color-change magic works well on this one. The artwork, a simplified human-like figure, surveys the magic garden garden that surrounds and engulfs him. The composition has the figure nicely placed just right of center, and the lighting provides a clear path to follow as we weave through the garden. It makes me think of an illustration for C.S. Lewis's Space Trilogy. I really like this one.
It looks like a festival of some kind, or a celebratory day in Leuven. You and Roel are giving us quite an in-depth adventure inside the city. The old architecture with its decorative features is well recorded in these shots, but the winner is the middle shot with the child hoisted by the stilt-legged twin "policemen". Great moment.
this feels more like I'm actually there in the field, appreciating the natural beauty and power of nature. I understand your mention of graphic elements, and Minnie's comments about study of color, but I guess for me, nature usually wins 😀
I knew it was a yellow raspberry variety, having enjoyed them in the past. Your single berry shot couldn't be more scrumptious! Have you ever done photography for a food magazine?
"Just the way your mind works" is a continuing gift to us all!
Through the magic of raw file editing, I was able to coax some detail out of the structure on the left.
This version could have more distant detail as simplejoy demonstrated, but I prefer a bit less. It feels more like the day as I experienced it: glaring hot sun in my eyes, heading to "triple digits" temperature + that nasty haze (sometimes it's all smoke) we see too often in August.
I think this new edit is better for the challenge I was attempting: "background" - either adding information (sense of place, if you will) or blurred so as to not detract. I suspect that my first post is the one that evokes more comments about animal forms 😀 Maybe I can work that further into fanciful, so as to not be kind of halfway into each purpose?
Yes, it seems that given enough time, nature will reclaim what was hers in the beginning. Appreciate your comments, Chris.
Thanks Minnie! I'm not sure if Yakima County is considered part of the High Prairie. A quick Google search suggests it's a bit further south, towards the Columbia River.
No, you're not the only one who sees animals. I love those reactions!
Thanks so much for your time and efforts!
Indeed. Thank you for the delightful comment!
Mike, your comment about the shadow detail was what made me curious to see what I could find with a new edit. I was surprised there was anything there 🙂
Your observation about "tipping point" is thought-provoking, and your associating the tools with animal skeletons, like a few others said, is very gratifying! Many thanks for your time.
