Critique Style Requested: Standard
The photographer is looking for generalized feedback about the aesthetic and technical qualities of their image.
Description
Huisness, Harris, Scotland
Huisness beach on Harris has a gorgeous arc of fine white sand onto which perfect straight lines of turquoise waves march in, and eventually break, but it also has some of the finest marked and patterned stones, slabs and rocky chunks of Lewisian Gneiss, semi embedded in unblemished sand that I have seen anywhere, whether it be Lewis or Harris and I am a sucker for these convoluted and often colourful geological works of art. This one reminded me of a saggy partially inflated weather balloon and on this composition I concentrated exclusively on that subliminal thought.
Specific Feedback
Happy to hear your comments
Technical Details
Fuji GFX 50S, Fuji GF 100-200 zoom lens, polariser adjusted to reduce but not eliminate reflective glare. 4 shot photo stack f/11 at 1/30 second, ISO 100.
Ian, I find this one pleasantly puzzling. It appears in some ways as if the rocks are all converging downward towards the darker center, like flower petals. But the pattern of white lines suggest that the surface we’re seeing is relatively flat. I don’t need to resolve the puzzle to enjoy what I’m seeing.
I like all the fine detail. I think you could rotate the image 90 degrees counter-clockwise and it would still work.
Well done.
Ian,
My mind wants to figure out the topography of the rocks and tries to stop me from just enjoying the the texture and line patterns. There is almost a symmetry in the lines that seem to have been cracked somehow. At the same time, your visionof a deflated weather balloon does come through, but to me it is more like a sad balloon.
Yes, a weather balloon being struck by lightning, 
. As a geology fan, I’m trying to imagine how the cracks in this shape could have been formed, especially the light blob in the center. This is fun to explore with the yellowish crack across the lower left and the darker base rock around the middle coming in from the right.
Ah well the yellowish blob in the centre is sand from Huisness glorious beach. The rest of the rock is half embedded in it. Just for the record the crack that forms the envelope of the balloon is where the rock sinks into a shallow scoop and the sand lays at the bottom of that scoop. For scale you are looking at an area of around 3 foot x 2.5 foot.
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| Mark Seaver Weekly Challenge Moderator
April 24 |
Yes, a weather balloon being struck by lightning, . As a geology fan, I’m trying to imagine how the cracks in this shape could have been formed, especially the light blob in the center. This is fun to explore with the yellowish crack across the lower left and the darker base rock around the middle coming in from the right.
This is very nice.
The shapes are very pleasing and you found a lovelly composition.
Perfect light, also.
