I thought I’d post this picture, which is a bit of an oddball for me. Also taken this past August on our backcountry trip in Temagami, it eschews the classic rules of landscape photography by being devoid of leading lines or diagonals. It is, in essence and by design, flat. When we first arrived in Temagami, I was immediately in awe of the arboreal dimensions of biodiversity. I have never seen such diverse layering of conifers – white pine, red pine, every variety of spruce, hemlock, tamarack and on and on. The affect is one of subtle and not so subtle layering of light and shadow, shape and line and, of course, the most diverse display of green imaginable. My intention when I took this picture was that it would be about the textural display of the cloud formation. But when I downloaded it, I was delighted to find that it included a wonderful textural display of the forest as well. And so, in the end this is really a picture about texture and colour. Despite its lack of visual depth, I find it compelling and wonder the extent that others, you all, might as well. Feedback is always appreciated.
Is this a composite: No
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You know, without the clouds it might be a fairly boring image. But those clouds give it the depth necessary to make this an over the top pic. I think it works and would make a nice large print. Well seen. And great idea about breaking rules. Success.
Stunning! The simplicity of this image is what makes it so compelling. It reminds me of a very famous image that is one of the most expensive images sold in history, Andreas Gursky: Rhein II (1999).
No critiques to improve the shot!
Works for me, I’m kind of an anarchist in that I don’t like excessive rules. 
Kerry , this is also reminding me of Ned Pratt’s work. Bravo on not following the rules this time! The planes ad so much. This is a delightful image.
@David_Bostock - Thanks David. I would like to make a print but I can’t afford to replace all my ink cartridges 
@Michael_Torkildsen - Thanks especially for the heads up on Andreas Gursky. I had never heard of him (though I’m guessing he’s never heard of me either 
) Amazing photographer with a marvellous breadth and depth of work. It is interesting that the photograph you site “Rheine II” also appears in two other forms “Rheine I” and “Rheine III”. It’s the exact same scene but different. I wonder if they are taken at different times or the same photograph developed differently.
@Michael_Lowe - We anarchists have to stick together - oh, wait a minute, that’s not going to work!
@Mario_Cornacchione - funny you should mention Ned Pratt. Last year, a photographer friend of mine gave me Pratt’s recent book, “One Wave”. I loved the photographs but it took me a while to understand what he was about. His take on making photographs in particular and art in general really opened my eyes to new possibilities. It is highly unlikely I would have made this photograph, “Textures” had I not been exposed to Pratt’s work.
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I like the sky the most and also the way those trees pop up above the top of the canopy. I would dial down the texture in both the trees and the water. They give a sort of brittle look to that part of the image, as though over sharpened. But maybe that’s what you are after.
