Lighthouse.

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  Bruce Osgood

• Aug 21, 2015

This really works for me. Harmoney and balance. And just enough discord in the surf to keep the heart going.

 

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  Trail Images

• Aug 21, 2015

Works very nicely as presented here, Tony. I really like the POV as the path leads us into the scene overall.

 

• Ghostman

• Aug 22, 2015

Very nice, however I find the DoF distracting. My eyes want to be taken up the path to see the lighthouse, they want some clarity and detail but when they get there it's diffused. So I end up going back down to the gate and instead of getting the feeling that I'm welcome to cross the threshold, I'm obliged to stay this side of the fence.

 

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  oolalajp

• Aug 22, 2015

really dig this...it's the clouds that make it for me.

 

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  jovo

• Aug 22, 2015

I like this subject and the symmetry and rhythm a lot. For me, though, the sky isn't interesting enough to keep except for the area just above the lighthouse. You might want to use a dark yellow filter next time to coax more drama from the clouds...the K2 just isn't getting it done IMHO!

 

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  Colin Corneau

• Aug 22, 2015

What a perfectly and simply composed image! I agree with earlier poster saying the clouds add a lot, here.

 

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  blansky

• Aug 23, 2015

jovo said:

I like this subject and the symmetry and rhythm a lot. For me, though, the sky isn't interesting enough to keep except for the area just above the lighthouse. You might want to use a dark yellow filter next time to coax more drama from the clouds...the K2 just isn't getting it done IMHO!

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I see you point but cropping the sky would change the character of the picture to me. Now it has a rather calm and quiet effect, and if cropped it has a more dynamic or sinister effect due the lower clouds perhaps sending a message of a coming storm. So I think this is just one you have to live with, and never reaches a 10 but still a good solid 8. Perhaps it's one where if one waited a while the upper clouds may have cooperated a bit more.

 

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  tony lockerbie

• Aug 23, 2015

Thank you all again for the very interesting and considered comments....always a pleasure! This can be improved at the printing stage, but sometimes you just have to go with the prevailing conditions and the camera that you have around your shoulder...I was traveling light.

 

• Too old to care

• Aug 24, 2015

Beautiful image.

 

• jeffreyg

• Aug 24, 2015

Not a criticism, just a thought ... if you crop out approximately the top half of the sky the lighthouse becomes more "important" and what appears to possibly rain in the distance adds more to the sky.