Christmas Sunset

Gallery: LandscapePosted December 24, 2011730 views18 comments

A snowy Christmas sunset on Back River in Boothbay, Maine taken in 1986.

.....and another Eye of Mordor 25 years ago.....

Mamiya 645
Mamiya 80mm
Ektachrome Professional 100
Epson V750 scan with Silverfast 8 Ai software
Cropped to a pano format

Thanks for all your comments and critiques throughout the past year. Hope everyone at NPN has a Merry Christmas and a peaceful New Year filled with glorious light.

Comments

18 comments

Comment posted by Nick Bristol on December 24, 2011 at 5:34 PM

Its Beautiful! and very peaceful. Merry Christmas to you and your family, Eva. Nick

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Comment posted by Enrique Vizcarra on December 24, 2011 at 10:13 PM

Wow!!!

From just looking at the picture, gave me cold

Looks like temperature was too low.. Lake looks almost freezed

Great photo and courage to take this photo :)

Registered on September 10, 2009, 223 Posts, 393 Comments

Comment posted by Stan Rose on December 25, 2011 at 12:25 AM

Nice--id love to see this big! Merry Christmas, Eva!

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Comment posted by Hillary Younger on December 25, 2011 at 2:28 AM

A beautiful winter scene...I bet the detail would be exquisite in a print....Merry Xmas, Eva.

Registered on October 2, 2011, 17 Posts, 167 Comments

Comment posted by Ian Cameron on December 25, 2011 at 6:37 AM

Lovely Eva. 25 years you'd have thought the hobbits would have made more effort to extinguish the "eye"

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Comment posted by R.Bill Moser on December 25, 2011 at 8:06 AM

i love the mood here. Great x-mas sunset...and it looks pretty cold.

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Comment posted by Dan Baumbach on December 25, 2011 at 12:47 PM

Quiet, beautiful and cold. I love it.

- Dan

Registered on November 1, 2003, 473 Posts, 7980 Comments

Comment posted by Ed Lowe on December 25, 2011 at 1:10 PM

This is lovely, Eva. The contrasting warm and cool colors are particularly striking as are the textures and details in this winter scene. Merry Christmas to you also.

Ed

Registered on February 7, 2004, 414 Posts, 7115 Comments

Comment posted by Lon Overacker on December 25, 2011 at 3:06 PM

Eva,

I love this too! A wonderful winter scene only topped off and made even better by the appearance and warmth of the sun. What a beautiful and fitting image for the season.

And, a Merry Christmas and Happy New Year to you and your family too!

Lon

ps. (I would have guessed Velvia - but then I can't remember when it was introduced...)

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Comment posted by Tony Kuyper on December 25, 2011 at 7:48 PM

The snow-covered trees provide some great texture. My first inclination was to suggest cropping some of the sky, but it sort of contrasts and balances the textures elsewhere in the scene.

Registered on November 1, 2003, 364 Posts, 22328 Comments

Comment posted by Michael Anderson on December 26, 2011 at 12:08 AM

This is cool- you can feel how that subtle golden sunset is not going to warm the snowy air- it has that distant feel of the winter solstice. A really beautiful scene Eva.

Registered on January 31, 2006, 228 Posts, 3072 Comments

Comment posted by Ant on December 26, 2011 at 3:26 AM

Very nice, and very wintery... It gives an extremely peaceful (albeit frozen) feeling, waiting for the days to get longer and the sun to get warm again...

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Comment posted by Peter Richter on December 26, 2011 at 9:07 AM

A consistent composition and wonderful presentation of this serene winter scene to me, Eva. Thanks for sharing.

Peter

Registered on November 10, 2010, 218 Posts, 2723 Comments

Comment posted by Chris Chamberlain on December 26, 2011 at 10:10 AM

Beautiful shot, Eva! I like the cold fell this has with the warm sun trying to break through. I always wanted to live somewhere that east of the Rockies where you didn't have to go up into the mountains to have it snow. We don't get coastal conditions like this here. But, then again, you don'y "have" to deal with it unless you choose to also!

Chris

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Comment posted by Nancy Lea Sandy on December 26, 2011 at 10:13 AM

Lovely serenity. The warmth of the sun balances the cool blues beautifully. Best of the seasons to you and yours.

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Comment posted by Wayne Willison on December 26, 2011 at 10:27 AM

Love the dreamlike quality of a Christmas Eve.
Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year, Eva.

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Comment posted by Gary McGhee on December 26, 2011 at 11:56 AM

Merry Christmas to you too Eva and thanks for all the feedback you've given me since I've joined NPN.

This is a beautiful winter landscape shot, the little patch of sunlight contrasts very nicely against the colder landscape.

Cheers, Gary.

Registered on April 15, 2010, 142 Posts, 2416 Comments

Comment posted by Scott Smorra on December 28, 2011 at 4:47 PM

I really like the colors here Eva. The warmth from the sunset contrasts very nicely with the cool tones in the snow/water.

Registered on November 2, 2009, 161 Posts, 2143 Comments