Your Best Photograph from the Previous Month - Critique and Discussion Encouraged

[Jim Noel]

A good job of seeing and photographing this almost perpetual landmark. The dead tree is an excellent pointer to the truck and illustrates the bare desolation of this area. I have passed this sign and other similar many times. COngratulations.

[DDrake]

I feel like there's a bit of dissonance between your statement that communication was not your intent, with your explanation about Palouse and images made in and around the area, in contrast to the scene you have presented. Perhaps communication is not a good word actually - maybe just "consideration?" It seems like you have something to say, or at least something for us to consider.

Fair enough. Let's say, there are aspects of my place (or anyone's place, I suppose) that are unconsidered, and escape attention. I'd like to pay attention to those things. I'm interested in what happens when other people experience the artifacts of that 'paying attention.' With regard to photography, this is still somewhat aspirational—I make an awful lot of pictures that are more about clumsiness with the medium that paying attention to anything.

[Corran]

Fair enough. Let's say, there are aspects of my place (or anyone's place, I suppose) that are unconsidered, and escape attention. I'd like to pay attention to those things. I'm interested in what happens when other people experience the artifacts of that 'paying attention.' With regard to photography, this is still somewhat aspirational—I make an awful lot of pictures that are more about clumsiness with the medium that paying attention to anything.

I totally get that!

Down in south GA, where I used to live, there was a large tract of land that was given to the county for a recreational area / park, because it was a floodplain and couldn't be developed. It was notorious for drug sales and early-morning trysts by locals in the closet about their sexuality...anyway, I went once back when I was first getting into photography and thought it was boring and no photos were there. However once I got into LF and started to really practice "seeing" I started to learn to notice the special things about a place. That park taught me everything about composition, light, etc. - and most importantly about "place."

Keep it up and thanks for the interesting convo!

[Peter De Smidt]

That's a wild one, Bryan. I love the movement and the tonal contrasts in the water.

[Corran]

Thanks Peter. I use it illustratively here - it was taken in Fall 2014. One of my favorites from there, but I sold the only print I made a few years ago. I need to find that negative and print it again, large.

[Steven Ruttenberg]

Very interesting image. Kind of unsettling in a way on your senses. I like it. Soon, I hope to post a large format astrophoto.

[Steven Ruttenberg]

Here is an image of Aspens in the fall. Just outside Grand Canyon North. 4x5. Portra160. 75mm f/4.5 Nikkor, at f/32 and 1/4 sec.

[Vaughn]

...The tree stump is irrelevant imho

Could help throw some doubt on the quality of land being sold.

A nicely seen group of aspens, Steven. I light the way the green on the grass is echoed by the few green aspen leaves in the center of the image.

[Steven Ruttenberg]

Thank you. I like the three dimensional effect and the lighting on the trunks of the trees myself.

[Tin Can]

Like!

Been wondering where you are.

Here is an image of Aspens in the fall. Just outside Grand Canyon North. 4x5. Portra160. 75mm f/4.5 Nikkor, at f/32 and 1/4 sec.