Plain Carrizo

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Critique Style Requested: Initial Reaction

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Questions to guide your feedback

Devoid of blossoms
Coyotes hunting jackrabbits
Eye travels beyond

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Image Description

My first trip to Carrizo Plains was definitely not a “flower year”. (This whole scene would be awash with color and texture). But still, I had to get down at the edge of the playa to try to capture and convey the lines and scale.

Technical Details

1/500 f/16 (it was sunny and clear)

Specific Feedback

Does the image grab you, or is it just too desolate?
If it grabs you long enough to read this, I am curious what you think of being there at that time.

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The B&W focuses on various textures without getting caught in the color. The curve in the path is very well placed and takes the eye to??? I see some fencing and the suggestion that hills are in the distance. I feel cheated. I want more and do not like being stopped in my tracks, so I am encouraged to spend more time with what I can see. This is a very effective way to get the viewer engaged. Good work.

I see this as a challenge to make lemonade out of lemons.

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Sort of a Seinfeld photograph. It is about nothing, but maybe people will watch it.

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Thank you for your appreciative reflections. Maybe not lemonade but a lemon twist in a glass of water

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That was my initial reaction too. The s-curve is a great leading line, but leads to the pinched off top; I pine for more. I’m not sure I appreciate the effect as much as Barbara does.

That fence is an interesting component, and if you wandered over there to shoot it as a more prominent subject I’d be interested to see what you came up with.