Blue Veined

Gallery: LandscapePosted December 9, 20141,869 views17 comments

Talamine Bay, Sutherland, Scotland.

Beneath a ridiculously blue late autumn sky I used the reflected light to my advantage as it's cast stained the grey folds of layered stone on the shore line. I was intrigued by the patterns and swirls of rock and found it made a very satisfying composition which later spawned a few pleasing variations on a theme.

Please view LARGE...it needs the detail.

Pentax 67II, 55-100 zoom, unfiltered, f/22 at 2 Seconds, Fuji Velvia 50.

Comments

17 comments

Comment posted by Eva McDermott on December 9, 2014 at 5:49 AM

From the thumbnail I thought this was an ice abstract. Wonderful lines Ian and I love the touch of beige / salmon colored rock along the bottom.

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Comment posted by Joel Hazelton on December 9, 2014 at 9:11 AM

This is awesome, with wonderful lines and textures. My eye travels freely through the composition.

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Comment posted by Stuart Williams on December 9, 2014 at 9:46 AM

Ian, I like this abstraction - however, I might consider trying to flip it 180 deg (and I'm not standing on my head to see how it looks ...). great lines and the colours are fine too.

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Comment posted by Bill Chambers on December 9, 2014 at 12:47 PM

Gorgeous intimate subject Ian. Well done.

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Comment posted by Jim Zablotny on December 9, 2014 at 3:01 PM

Hi Ian,

Ni nits here--this image is very awesome

........................Jim

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Comment posted by Basil Greber on December 9, 2014 at 4:27 PM

Great, I like it a lot. You composed those patterns nicely. If I were to nitpick about something - you might have removed the sand (from the looks of it, this is a rather small area in your frame), I don't think it adds a lot to the image.

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Comment posted by D.A. Edwards on December 9, 2014 at 4:35 PM

Love the detail, comp and color, Ian. A thing of beauty it is.

As a relative NPN newbie, and not picking on this photo in particular, I am somewhat confused about why images such as this are in the Landscape gallery here at NPN when there is a macro/close-up gallery also. In fact I think that Ian's fantastic ice image of a week or so ago (a WP) was in the macro gallery. Seems kind of random....

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Comment posted by Ian Cameron on December 9, 2014 at 5:22 PM

Hi Dave

I am sure it wouldn't be considered macro - close up, possibly I suppose. The area photographed is of course land and it is definitely being landscaped. It measures around 1 metre by 0.75 metres, so I suspect if I put it in that category someone else would feel it belongs in landscape and move it there. Guess thats what the moderators are for.

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Comment posted by Igor Doncov on December 9, 2014 at 7:10 PM

Remarkable image. Love the cool color presentation.

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Comment posted by Peter Cross on December 9, 2014 at 11:36 PM

Excellent work, Ian as per usual. Your eye is always finding things that I'm sure many of us would walk right by. The shapes and the lines are really interesting. That and the color added by reflected light gave you a great scene. My eye wanders around picking up new pieces of the detail in this. And yes, the large is way better.

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Comment posted by R.Bill Moser on December 10, 2014 at 4:20 PM

Great lines and forms. Woderful image

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Comment posted by Kah Kit Yoong on December 11, 2014 at 1:03 AM

Just a superb abstract. The colour palette is most appealing.

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Comment posted by Bill Fach on December 11, 2014 at 10:22 PM

Ian: Really well seen and I like that there is no obvious scale to this. Top notch shot. >=))>

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Comment posted by Stan Rose on December 13, 2014 at 9:08 PM

Neat! The subtle warm hues make it for me.

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Comment posted by Lucy Aron on December 13, 2014 at 11:19 PM

Totally cool the colors and ways the lines compel the eye to move around in a satisfying way.

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Comment posted by Mark Metternich on December 15, 2014 at 9:01 PM

Although I like the other better, this is nice too.

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Comment posted by Waleed Marhoum on December 27, 2014 at 4:22 PM

Like and Love

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