water and grasses in motion

Nice fall colors Mark. I like the diagonal or actually triangle in the comp.. Two smaller tribs feeding into a larger creek or stream with rocks lower right .. Movement of grass in water gives peaceful feeling. Thanks for your contribution..

Cool Mark!!
I like how this just opened up and my eyes instantly and easily flowed down the image while taking in the textures and colors involved.
If there was only one thing I may have done differently would be to pop on a polarizer to take out some of the glare within the water so I could see the richness of the grass under the water and the angle that it moves with its rich/wet colors.

Keep on sending Mark!
Mike

Mark, IMO a slower shutter speed would have better communicated your title, with the grass above water being rendered sharp and motionless providing a greater sense of movement depicted by the slow flowing grasses underneath the surface. I believe this would also greatly enhance the images Visual Impact.

Best,

Chas

as the image stands, there is a delightful "shimmer" in the grasses that results from the difractive quality of the water. this would have been destroyed by a slow shutter speed.

additionally there is a rippled texture on the water, esp apparent in the top and lower left. this, too, would have been destroyed by a slower shutter speed.

to my eye, the detail of the grasses is paramount to conveying the rich textural complexity of the entire scene. again, this would have been destroyed by a slower shutter speed.

all of these qualities where "given" to me by nature with just a simple click of the shutter. i believe i would have messed it up by trying to "improve" what the natural world had provided.

i sincerely hope this helps you understand what my vision and inner demons where "telling"me to do.

Great patterns within this one Mark, the reflection has a very nice rythym to it which contributes greatly to it imo. Almost looks like a shark swimming thru the image, even has an eye!

robert............

Mark, Interesting capture to say the least, and well exposed as well, but devoid in my view of much photographic impact , artistic or otherwise, unless the intent here is to make it look as casual and primitive as possible and all at the same time; there is very little that grabs my attention in this image, not being and art expert I can only tell you what it does to me personally, this is in my opinion not even out of the box, In my opinion an image has to convey something, something that would makes us react, let it be fear, joy, love , beauty, but it has to have something besides a well exposed surface, it should make us react to it!!
I hate to be the one that sees the king with no cloths in this instance, but I am sure you would nothing less from me, but my honest opinion.
I, have seen some of the images of a true avant guarde photog, eternally curious and with a vision of a Picasso, His name is Bjonn Roslett, Maybe you have seen his work and maybe not, and I, don't like all of this work, but most of it is out of the box, exquisitely beautiful and utterly creative, Hope you'll like it as well!!!

http://www.naturfotograf.com/index2.html

My comments are in no way directed at you, it is just my visceral reaction to your image as presented here!!
Keep up the good work!!! Congrats!!

in fact, Alex, you are on the right track here.

the image is meant to appear "casual and primitive". all of my serious work shares that exact trait. i want that body of work to be devoid of what i call, "delusory photographic artifacts" - obvious photographic technique and/or effects.

i feel that this pov, "snapshotish" if you will, works in concert with my subject, which, in the case of my serious work, is almost exclusively the everyday, the overlooked, the underrated, and the mundane.

as several of the other posts on this page indicate, some viewers react to the subject and its presentation quite well. others don't. i suspect that the difference is more a result of a difference of receptivity on the viewers part. some like images that "scream" and are all about photography, others react those images that have a "quieter" voice unencumbered by
delusory photographic artifacts.

as to being "out of the box", the only box that i am trying to get out of is the box of formal photographic pictorialism.