"At the Quay" by Thomas Cakalic - My very first impression when I looked at
this image and read the comments was one of pleasant surprise at the
reasonable image quality considering all the mediocre feedback about these
super-zooms. Much better than I would have thought. That said, let's look
more at the image. I like the three different bands of color - brown, white
and black. I am somewhat torn as to whether I like the windows showing or
not. On one hand, they help give some sense of what I am viewing, but on
the other hand, if the image is about color, shape and pattern, then I find
it somewhat distracting. I have tried cropping them out and it gives me a
better feeling as a more abstract image. It also feels tilted to the left
just a little too far. Just enough for me to notice. I don't think it
should be perfectly straight up and down, though. Ok, after playing a bit
more, cropping the windows out, rotating to the right about 2 degrees, I am
now seeing what Tom comments that caught his eye. Certainly one could argue
that the windows add another shape, but I think it makes the image a little
to top heavy.
Tom, my guess is that I would have captured a very similar image to yours
had it caught my eye. I'm not sure I would have even seen it, though. Good
eye and observation!
Bruce Dayton
Sacramento, CA
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