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Photo posted by Eva McDermott in the Landscape gallery on 09/29/17 at 11:27 pm EST
Registered on 01/04/09, 1015 Posts, 13229 Comments
Post last edited by Eva McDermott on 09/30/17 at 1:18 pm EST
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Comment posted by Igor Doncov on 09/30/17 at 01:36 am EST
Registered on 11/22/14, 189 Posts, 2733 Comments
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This is good, Eva. One of your best recent images in my opinion. The composition is strong and clear. And the use of color is creative. The color is also used to tell a story: color = life, absence of color = death. I would emphasize the point by making the bare trees totally black. The large version seems to do that. This is an image with emotional appeal, which is a plus in my book.
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"If you want to make more interesting pictures, become a more interesting person" - Jay Maisel. |
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Comment posted by Ian Wolfenden on 09/30/17 at 08:12 am EST
Registered on 05/18/07, 1108 Posts, 7647 Comments
Comment last edited by Ian Wolfenden on 09/30/17 at 08:13 am EST
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I love the tonality of this image, Eva, and it's beautifully composed with a strong fg and a kind of pathway leading the eye into the distance. Most of all I like the mood - difficult to pin down but all the more intriguing because of that.
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Comment posted by Harley Goldman on 09/30/17 at 12:50 pm EST
Registered on 11/19/03, 586 Posts, 11271 Comments
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I really like this, Eva. The contrast between the green and the barren is quite striking and the composition has a real nice flow to it.
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"You were born an original. Don't die a copy."
- John Mason
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Comment posted by gary phillips on 09/30/17 at 1:44 pm EST
Registered on 10/24/13, 185 Posts, 4136 Comments
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This works quite well, Eva. The large version really brings this to life, or as Igor noted, to death. This image really tells the story of the fires that decimate these juniper environments. The hit and miss of the destruction and the long recovery is very evident. Nice work here, Eva.
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Comment posted by Mark Seaver on 09/30/17 at 1:48 pm EST
Registered on 01/23/11, 1103 Posts, 17270 Comments
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Eva, the contrast between the green trees in the foreground and the burnt/dead trees behind is very striking. This makes a fine semi-abstract view as well as speaking to the vagaries of how fires burn.
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Mark Seaver
Burtonsville, MD & Emigrant, MT
seaverphotos.com
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Comment posted by Lon Overacker on 10/01/17 at 2:13 pm EST
Registered on 11/24/06, 521 Posts, 19147 Comments
Eva,
I think I like this one a bit better than your previous from this location (although you didn't ask..) This tells a great story of perseverence - or luck, but I really like the inclusion of the green of the junipers. They were spared. Great job filling the frame, including keep some of the barren slope at the bottom. An intimate view that says so much.
The only suggestion I have would be to burn down the bottom area a bit, but that's minor.
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 Rudy Ruberti on 10/02/17 at 11:26 pm EST
Registered on 10/28/08, 179 Posts, 1875 Comments
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Some nice colors here and I like how the junipers line the bottom of the frame. I would consider bringing down the brighter highlights. Looking forward to my first fall trip up the east side this weekend. One of my favorite places for fall colors is the area around Park Lake, southwest of Mono and 395.
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