Jostein: Thanks for your comments.
I actually considered using a black and white version: http://www.photo.net/photodb/folder?folder_id=631154 but I think it needs a bit of the blue to convey the feeling of a vast ocean beyond the cave. I was thinking more of "Lost" than Robinson Crusoe. Dan On 11/9/06, Jostein Øksne <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > "Sea Cave" by Dan Matyola > > I guess a place like this really puts one in a sort of "Robinson > crusoe" mode, and after reading your description and taking another > long look at the picture, a sort of slight forlornness crept up on me. > I think it was the black surfaces of the image that did it. However, > it would be wrong to say that the image slapped this message into my > face. > > Considering that the black surfaces were instrumental for the effect, > I wonder how a shot with more black would work compared to this one. > > > "Left behind" by Dag Thrane > > It is hard to judge the scale of this pic, but the immediate > association was a fossil skeleton in a huge, geological formation. > Knowing you, it's probably a tidal pond somewhere, but the illusion > works. :-) > > > "Little Lost Bucket at the Beach" by Gabriel Cain > > The title says it, and it looks like the sea is going to claim the > bucket shortly. I like this one a lot for the idea and the execution > with the wash just underneath the bucket. It seems a bit soft, though. > > > "After read" by Albert > > Well done for singling out an object very commonly abandoned. The > concrete wall and the white lines on the tarmac works well, but in my > eyes the car in the corner distracts from the paper and thus the > message of the pic. > > > "In a Sea of Abandoned Buildings" > by Joseph Tainter > > This is almost cliché to me, but the vividness of the green > surroundings and trees growing through the roof makes it. > > > "Abandoned half-buit house" by Thrainn Vigfusson > > Har! I could have pointed out this as one of Thrainn's without the > name attached. Something about the power and the gloom of the blues, I > think. In this one, the sky seems to suffer a bit from processing as > it has gradation zones. Especially in the more cyan and magenta/pink > areas. For the texture and rendering in the house, I like very much > the way the image is processed. > > > Jostein > > -- > PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List > PDML@pdml.net > http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net > -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net
