July Print of the Month - Canyon De Chelly, 2005

This is defently a beautifully printed image, and it seems you have nice shadow/highlight detail. Personally, I would have to see the print with my own two eyes...rather then a scan. Im finding it hard to see a real focal point in your image, or really what you were trying to capture here. There seems to be one important element that is missing from this image, but I could be wrong since I am only viewing the scan.

More then often I have an 8x10 contact print that I think is pure amazing, but when scaned and viewed small online... what I was trying to express gets lost. The viewer cannot really SEE what I was photographing. I think that is the case here with me.

Now that I look at it more, that one lone tree in the upper right curve of light catches my eye more then anything. Its just this one little tree, out in the middle of nowhere!

Anyways, I really enjoy your work Scott! Thanks for showing.

Ryan McIntosh
Ebay-XContactPrintsX

I'm quite sure that the picture itself is the focal point and that Scott, like so many of us, is trying to create something new, not capture something that already exists.

Of course it is impossible to accurately represent a contact print with a 72dpi JPG. I have had the good fortune of seeing this photograph in person and can't say enough about the quality of the print. The tones and textures are rich and sharp and certainly play no small role in this prints visual impact. Even so, I think this scan does give the viewer a reasonable idea of the path the eye naturally follows around the image. As always, nice work Scott. doc