Critique Style Requested: Initial Reaction
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I would like to get some feedback on how this image affects you, aesthetically, emotionally, or in any other way that stirs your soul. What I am trying to capture with this image, as so many I took in this glorious land, is the ruggedness and sheer expanse of Newfoundland’s North Atlantic coast. It is a rare kind of beauty that evokes awe and reminds me just how small and vulnerable I really am.
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Image Description
This image was taken on the Fox Island trail near Bonavista, Newfoundland.
But here’s the backstory and the future story. My wife and I decided it was time to let go of our annual month-long canoe trips for a variety of reasons. But we were not ready to stop adventuring. So, we went out and bought a pickup truck and a drop in camper. Our plan was to take a month each summer and visit a different remote area in Canada – the Yukon, the Northwest Coast of British Columbia …. But, for our first trip we decided to go somewhere that has been on our bucket list forever – Newfoundland. Shortly after we got off the ferry as nightfall was approaching, we pulled our camper off at a secluded spot right at the ocean’s edge. As we lay in our camper bed listening to the surf and not only hearing the wind but feeling it shaking the truck, we knew we’d come home. About ten days later, as daylight began to fade, we pulled off the main road onto a gravel track looking for a place to park and camp. As we drove off onto this side road, my wife noticed a “for sale” sign. We realized that this wasn’t a gravel road so much as a very, very long driveway. We parked and after dinner, as the full moon was rising, decided to walk further down that road and see what was for sale. What we saw by moonlight blew us away. The next morning, we walked back, knocked on the door and met the occupants, Otto and Joanne. They and their ancestors have lived on the land for generations but now, they were at a time in their life where it was time to move closer to medical care and so they had decided to sell their property. We sat and talked with them for hours and then a week or two later we came back and spent another three or four hours roaming their property as Otto talked about all the medicinal plants and showed us his incredible truck garden. The property itself is four acres on a secluded cove totally surrounded by hundreds of acres of Crown forest (that can’t be developed). Otto, a master builder all his life, had built the house with his own hands. Having completed it in 2016, it is a solid house built for the ruggedness of Newfoundland winters and sultry days of Newfoundland summers. Long story short, four months later we’ve sold our house in Toronto and will be permanent residents on that property starting April 21st. Who knew.
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Can someone please tell me how to upload a screenshot here. I can’t see any way to do it.
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