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Photo posted by Albert Darmo in the Landscape gallery on 02/07/16 at 10:55 pm EST
Registered on 11/25/08, 1386 Posts, 11978 Comments
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Comment posted by Pete Bengeyfield on 02/08/16 at 10:04 am EST
Registered on 12/02/03, 1247 Posts, 3439 Comments
My first impression was that there's almost too many of the snow covered branches. It becomes more of a white picture with a few dark patches, than a picture of snow covered branches. But it's tough to prune them 
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Comment posted by Harley Goldman on 02/08/16 at 10:17 am EST
Registered on 11/19/03, 586 Posts, 11271 Comments
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I would tend to agree with Pete take on it, there is a whole lot going on here, making it tough to wrap my mind around it.
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"You were born an original. Don't die a copy."
- John Mason
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Comment posted by Roel Wijtmans on 02/08/16 at 11:36 am EST
Registered on 09/30/12, 116 Posts, 2257 Comments
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Hmm, I don't have the same problem the others have, I really enjoy the chaotic and abstract nature of this. I would crop out the trunk in the llc though.
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Comment posted by Lon Overacker on 02/08/16 at 1:53 pm EST
Registered on 11/24/06, 521 Posts, 19147 Comments
Albert,
I'm with Roel. To me, this is a perfect example of making "order out of chaos." I seek out and look for stuff like this. I'm sure I've mentioned before, but great job of filling the entire frame; no reference to ground or sky. By filling the frame like this you're making the image all about the chaos, yet containing it. I think the 3 main trunks do give this enough structure to hold this together.
The sharpness and details are excellent! A great choice going with f/16. Not sure why you shoot this with a wide aperture anyway; there's no single plane of focus that you could isolate with a wider aperture. This came out terrific!
Lon
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To photograph is to hold one's breath, when all faculties converge to capture fleeting reality. It's at that precise moment that mastering an image becomes a great physical and intellectual joy. -Henri Cartier-Bresson
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Comment posted by David Schoen on 02/08/16 at 8:01 pm EST
Registered on 11/06/06, 1213 Posts, 4587 Comments
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This is an order out of chaos scene that might be a gateway to some interesting photo art.
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Comment posted by Paul Breitkreuz on 02/08/16 at 8:11 pm EST
Registered on 02/25/06, 525 Posts, 8448 Comments
Albert, easy enough to make out what the scene is, but I would treat my thoughts about it from an abstract POV. I kind of like the tightly woven look with a lot of crisscrossing going on. A neat find.....
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Paul Breitkreuz
Corona, California
Trailimages.com
NPN 2326
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Comment posted by Dave Dillemuth on 02/09/16 at 11:12 am EST
Registered on 12/10/15, 104 Posts, 1112 Comments
Albert,
Nice capture. Has a really fine abstract quality. I fall on the side that the three prominent trunks make order out of the chaos and hold the comp. together.
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Dave Dillemuth
Santa Barbara, California
davedillemuthphotography.smugmug.com
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Comment posted by Ed Lowe on 02/09/16 at 1:53 pm EST
Registered on 02/07/04, 414 Posts, 7115 Comments
This works beautifully for me, Albert. Those three birch trunks hold everything together for me and bring some organization to the chaos of the scene and I love the details in the large version. My only suggestion; and this is just a personal preference; would be to clone or crop out that tree trunk in the LLC. Great job on this.
Ed
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Comment posted by Mark Seaver on 02/09/16 at 9:48 pm EST
Registered on 01/23/11, 1103 Posts, 17270 Comments
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Looks good, Albert. I like the overwhelming tangle of snow covered branches and think that the trunks are very well placed and add just enough structure to keep this interesting. This style of image is hard to do and you're doing very well.
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Mark Seaver
Burtonsville, MD & Emigrant, MT
seaverphotos.com
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Comment posted by Mark Metternich on 02/16/16 at 11:38 am EST
Registered on 06/19/09, 276 Posts, 6240 Comments
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Love the complexity but simplicity here.
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