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Photo posted by Vance Gese in the Landscape gallery on 05/12/16 at 9:59 pm EST
Registered on 11/13/08, 298 Posts, 6629 Comments
Post last edited by Donna Erhardt on 05/20/16 at 12:55 pm EST
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Vance Gese
Vance Gese Photography
Quilcene, Washington |
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I was merely there, a small, puny, awestruck man,
praising Almighty God, with camera in hand.
Make a few images, well.
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Comment posted by Eva McDermott on 05/12/16 at 11:31 pm EST
Registered on 01/04/09, 1015 Posts, 13229 Comments
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Amazing greens Vance! A lot of abstract qualities that I like.
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Comment posted by gary phillips on 05/13/16 at 02:25 am EST
Registered on 10/24/13, 185 Posts, 4136 Comments
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Wow, Vance, that is some kinda frame filling green. Love the red/green combo and the intensity of the colors works very well for me. The moss is crazy and I applaud your ability to distil an amazing image from the chaos of this fantasy forest. Really cool.
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Comment posted by Kah Kit Yoong on 05/13/16 at 09:53 am EST
Registered on 09/27/06, 636 Posts, 10682 Comments
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The textures in green and how they pop (in a good way) is off the charts. Quite amazing to view the large version.
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Comment posted by Harley Goldman on 05/13/16 at 09:59 am EST
Registered on 11/19/03, 586 Posts, 11271 Comments
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Delightful. I love the blast of green and you have done a great job making order of chaos. This definitely needs to be viewed big.
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"You were born an original. Don't die a copy."
- John Mason
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Comment posted by Jim Jirka on 05/13/16 at 10:23 am EST
Registered on 11/01/03, 254 Posts, 1620 Comments
Yep that is how it looks. I believe you isolated an area to truly show the massive growth of the whole area. Not saturated at all.
Looking at the small version, it almost looked 3D like. The larger view to me is more true to life.
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Jim Jirka
Auburn, Washington
NPN 1052 |
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Comment posted by Roel Wijtmans on 05/13/16 at 11:55 am EST
Registered on 09/30/12, 116 Posts, 2257 Comments
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When looking at the thumbnail I was convinced this should have been in the photo art gallery, until I opened the large version and was blown away by the vibrance of this place. WOW, that is something I want to see in real life! What a joy to look at. Not an improvement, but just a thought: crop out the left tree to make the image even more abstract?
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Comment posted by Peter Richter on 05/13/16 at 3:38 pm EST
Registered on 11/10/10, 218 Posts, 2723 Comments
Vance, there is an amazing atmosphere to this image for me. Your processing is spot on to my eye an really draws me in. It must be overwhelming as a large print.
Peter
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Peter Richter
Vienna, Austria |
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Comment posted by John Williams on 05/13/16 at 11:14 pm EST
Registered on 09/06/07, 221 Posts, 5985 Comments
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Fascinating image Vance, to quote Kah "in a good way." I love the way it borders on abstract, even though it's obviously a forest.
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John Williams
www.tranquilviews.com
Battle Ground, WA |
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I often have wandered in deep contemplation, It seems that the mind runs wild when you're all alone. -John Denver
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Comment posted by David Schoen on 05/14/16 at 12:32 pm EST
Registered on 11/06/06, 1213 Posts, 4587 Comments
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The rainforest is really an amazing place and the Hoh is one of the best examples in the Pacific Northwest. This small piece of the pie here is done quite well to reproduce the sense of green lushness one gets when visiting this incredible environment. Well done.
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Comment posted by D.A. Edwards on 05/14/16 at 9:42 pm EST
Registered on 10/08/14, 226 Posts, 1187 Comments
Beautiful, Vance, and if anything I think that you could push the saturation a touch more. Such restraint ;-)
I also like Roel's suggestion about a crop from the left to eliminate some of the dark bits that in this case are a little distracting.
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D.A. (Dave) Edwards
Sacramento, The Golden State, USA |
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Comment posted by scott lanz on 05/15/16 at 8:09 pm EST
Registered on 11/14/03, 840 Posts, 12902 Comments
Amazing image, Vance. 
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scott lanz
Youngstown, Ohio
www.lanzscape.com |
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Comment posted by Dave Dillemuth on 05/16/16 at 1:22 pm EST
Registered on 12/10/15, 104 Posts, 1112 Comments
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This is gorgeous, Vance. Excellent comp. of the repeating patterns created by the trees. No nits.
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Dave Dillemuth
Santa Barbara, California
davedillemuthphotography.smugmug.com
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Comment posted by Youssef Ismail on 05/24/16 at 2:35 pm EST
Registered on 11/01/03, 474 Posts, 5555 Comments
WOW! Vance! A print of this must be absolutely stunning! The light makes this look surreal. Outstanding.
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If you contemplate the sublimity of The Sublime then all suspicion will sublimate into certainty about what you are seeing and what you saw and what you will see. The fog of illusion will then vanish and only Reality will remain without any doubt or suspicion. |
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Comment posted by Marylynne Diggs on 05/24/16 at 11:45 pm EST
Registered on 12/14/10, 122 Posts, 1034 Comments
Fabulous! This is one of those images where medium or large for,at makes a huge, immediately visible difference. This is just luscious.
ML
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ML Diggs
Portland OR |
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