Critique Style Requested: Standard
The photographer is looking for generalized feedback about the aesthetic and technical qualities of their image.
Description
I think the title pretty much expresses my intention in making this picture. I stumbled across this scene one still, early morning hundreds of miles from nowhere – root and rock so intimately connected over eons of existence, that it was hard to tell one from the other. I don’t believe the intimacy expressed in this image is merely an anthropomorphic projection but is a core expression of something deeply embedded in a world of interconnected wholeness where relationship is inherent to all of existence.
Specific Feedback
My hope for this photograph is that the sense of deep connection I felt in the moment of making it spills over into your experience reading it. I would love to hear your feelings and impressions
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I place a high value on seeing (vision) in photography and this sort of image has that. That’s why I regard these types of images with greater interest. They’re just unique and I can well imagine how you were walking about and suddenly this became ‘known’ to you. You became aware of it. That, to me, is the best part of photography. It’s interesting to me that I see this as a heavy object laying on tope of something more fragile, rather than an embrace. That likely has to do with our different internal makeups. From an aesthetic point of view I like the detail here. The detail in the dead and live pine needles and the lichen as well. I made a similar image recently and that may also be a reason for my attraction to it. But really it has to do with vision. Vision trumps everything in my opinion.
Just read this great quote by Leonard Bernstein.
“A great composer frees music from the predictable”.
This really applies to photography as well.
Kerry, I really like the textures and light in this image. I also like how the tree root is keeping the rock “safe” from falling further down the hill. I can see your vision for this one.
Kerry, this is a very beautiful and really well put together image. The composition is spot on and I like the direction you took the post processing it. Really nice work!
