Advancing drift

Critique Style Requested: Standard

The photographer is looking for generalized feedback about the aesthetic and technical qualities of their image.

Description

This is another B&W from Farewell Spit here in NZ.
The sands here are in continuous motion and it is surprising how much the spit landscapes change from day to day. In this image I tried to portray that change by showing (or trying to show) the encroachment of one large dune across another older dune surface. I am hoping that the small sandfalls from the leading edge of the larger dune onto the lower surface convey a feeling of that, to some extent anyway.

Specific Feedback

I am interested in knowing what type of feeling is conveyed here.

Technical Details

180mm
ISO 100
1/1600s, f3.5

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my answer would be: it makes me calm and persistent.

Hi Phil,
I quite like this intimate B&W landscape you shared with us. It has a nice range of tones as well as some interesting shapes and lines. I also think the lines in the sky mimic those of the dunes. This also reminds me of an incoming cresting wave. I don’t know if you would call it a feeling or not, but my initial emotion is the old adage “the more things change the more they remain the same”. Beautifully done; no suggestions from me.

Thanks for your comments @Ralf_Mantzel and @Ed_Lowe.

Hi Phil,

Lovely image. I like subtlety. It feels like a meditation to me, and it’s partly the (relatively) empty space in the sky and foreground and the echoed shape in upper left and mid to low right.

Actually, I’m not sure that is sky. Is it a background dune? Maybe that’s part of the appeal,

Very nice,

ML