Nice well-taken series more in the realm of intimate landscapes than large scenes. I tend to use vertical framing for such shots, and often end up liking them better than the traditional wide angle views. I like the way you've subtly incorporated the water into the second and third without letting it dominate the image, showing us more about the trees and grasses and well worn soil, yet we always know the water's importance. I imagine there are many tales this waterhole could tell. You hint at them but let us imagine. Well done.
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Well titled and fun. Pup seems less invigorated by the shoreline walk than his mistress. The subject becomes the leash that ties them together, bisecting the frame diagonally, and we feel the tension as she urges him along and he hangs back. The textures applied through your processing turn this more towards a Norman Rockwell art piece than a street photo, and makes me like it even more.
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A reactive photograph …. what intrigued me the most was the compositional device of that leash that keeps my main character from walking out of the picture and seems to tie the picture together . . The “Rockwell look” has a couple origins – I saw many of Rockewell's Saturday Evening Post covers during WWII when my mother got the magazine regularly, a showing of Rockwell's work at the local Museum about 5 years ago, and some pp tools that got me going in that direction. I liked the effect and thought it gave my street people a bit of anonymity so I continue using it .. Your comment had me looking back to my series on that art show when I wasn't using that technique and has me thinking I should go back and rework it a bit …..
Thank you for the comment ..
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I remember making a shot similar to this a few years back down by a little local stream.
Just as in this shot I like the way you can see the details of the splashes in the water all frozen in time. The colours are nice too
I'm wondering how the flow of water is here: is it coming down from above and then going both left and right?
or is it all left to right, but then how does it jump over the middle bit ?
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Looks like that reflective surface is being put to good use again!
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You've captured the (double) rainbow colours nicely in this shot
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I'm assuming there must be desert all around this special place? How far away from "civilisation" is it ?
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I like this version better :-)
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Good title for this!
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I'm on the same page with Minnie that this deserves further exploration and experimentation.
Of the three shown here, the first holds an immediate appeal for me.
Probably because of the brightness of the colours.
The second is my least liked: it feels flat (no depth) and dull in colour.
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I like the title for this image of an object breaking out of the background.
The extreme close up gives this smooth metal a peculiar texture.
It almost feels like a high-polished dark stone carving, instead of metal.
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Autumn walks are always interesting because of the different colours.
I like being led by the hand on this walk of yours.
Like you, I enjoy looking up when walking under tall trees: we see the shapes and patterns evolving constantly.
I don't know when I starting with that habit.
Maybe after watching the great Coen Brothers movie "Miller's Crossing".
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Funny how in this thread, there seem to be themes emerging all by themselves, as they sometimes do.
Looking up through the leaves of your artificial trees, we are reminded of the real trees in a submission by Fireplace33 just a few posts before yours.
And that autumnal walk, in turn, provides a clear link to Minnie's gorgeous Indian Summer valley view.
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I normally don't associate US National Parks with sights that are also (not identical but similar) available in my low lands Europe regions.
This, however, reminds me a lot of some valleys that we can walk through and over, in the Ardennes (Belgium) or in the Eiffel and Hünsruck region (area Luxembourg and Western border of Germany).
Whatever the association : the view is gorgeous. Those dark red-leaved trees in the foreground really do you a favour.Roel
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Great shot and effective composition! I would never think of a square crop like that, but it works really well with the way you‘ve framed it. The colors are beautiful as well and add to the balance. Very enjoyable image!
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The Batavia story is actually horrific. The drama takes place in Australia. It's a tale of mutiny, massacre, rape and torture. The story concludes with a boat race between the good guys and the bad guys to get to the boat of the returning skipper. The whole saga reminds me of The Lord of the Flies. Marooned people reverting to a state of savagery. If you don't know the story, chase it up. It would make a nice little costume drama horror film. On one of the Abrolhos islands off the north coast of Western Australia the good guys built a stone wall fort to fight off the bad guys. This was in 1629. Captain Cook didn't arrive until 1700.
Some years ago I went on a small plane flight over the islands. The fort still stands, the first European structure in Australia. I'll hunt up my aerial photo of it and post it here next week.1629
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There is a series of dramatization/podcasts about that story, currently available in Flanders, with renowned actor Jan Decleir as narrator (actually I believe his voice is supposed to be the ship's voice).
www.geluidshuisuitgeverij.com/batavia
The description says that it plays out like a "true crime historic reconstruction movie, but for your ears"
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LOL, I hadn't noticed that the water jumped over the rock! Here is an uncropped, minimally edited version I did after MinnieV mentioned the very dark areas. I had shot and processed the first for a "High Contrast" theme. I think the water is coming from between the middle two rocks and falling to both left and right. This stream and the rocks are a man-made water feature at a nearby medical building. It's the building I photographed for the black and white geometric shapes. Many thanks!
