Looking. A few examples.

[ConsAreLiars]

For some reason I like finding this kind of image. The sort of thing it ould be easy to walk past, but more zenny to stop and enjoy. These are from nature/hiking walks, but the same is true everywhere. Got some more to share, where there was no real subject, just the it-ness?

PondGrass


PondGrassClose


Mossy Forest


Tundra


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[Eurobabe]

1. I like the pond grass, 1st photo

like looking from afar, but don't like jumping in it. It does look peaceful...all the photos are very tranquil.

[Blue_In_AK]

2. I like those kinds of shots, too...

Here is a sun-dappled birch forest I shot near Fairbanks this summer. Too bad we can't include the sound of the birds singing when we post these pictures.

[ConsAreLiars]

9. Very Nice!

Gives me a sense of place.

Here's a bright-overcast view of a grove of Alders in the Hoh Rain Forest N.P. A bit more of a standard photo (obvious subject and standard-good-normal critiqe qualities), but it is another example of how light makes the image.

MossyAlderGrove

[Blue_In_AK]

11. That's lovely.

All those shades of green.

[Touchdown]

3. Definitely Mossy Forest.

I love it. No explaination, I'm just attracted to it.:hi:

[ConsAreLiars]

6. Your turn to post some "no particular subject"

that helps you recall, and maybe others share in, some sort of "being there" experience.

It's an odd image in many ways, the foliage was blowing around, rainforest-evening dim light, and the backlighting is very contrasty so much detail is blown out, no particular point of interest, no rule of thirds, no threes, no near-middle-far -- all of the usual criique things are violated. But I also like it somehow.

[Touchdown]

8. Oh' you want me to post a pic?

These are going to look stupid to others but...
Ties (taken at a garage sale. They were hanging on the mailbox)

Gold Lion

Duck Pond (not much there but green, but it looks more tranquil that it really is)

[ConsAreLiars]

12. The "Ties" photo is best at getting at what I was trying to get at.

The Seeing and Being There that results in an image that "normal" camera users would never notice.

[NV Whino]

4. Oh yeah!

Napa Wetlands... as of this afternoon.

[ConsAreLiars]

7. Definitely! (but too small)

I find that simply trying to find "a picture" among the infinite options means being more attuned to the place. Occasionally, not often, the photo that results is successful in telling a bit of the truth of that place. (Even without birdsongs and breezes.)

[NV Whino]

13. It's a great puzzlement to me

why the damned things come in small sometimes and large others. I have an "action" set in PhotoShop that will size horizontals or verticals to the right dimension for posting in this forum. All the photos start out at the same size, are run through the pre-programed "action" and saved for posting in Photobucket and then DU.

[NV Whino]

14. Here's another try at sizing

Okay, I think I've got it now. I was saving them as high quality jpeg. That must be the difference. Silly me.

[insane_cratic_gal]

5. I have one with a subject and subjectless

Most of you have seen this one.. I just cleaned it up



and this one is just relaxing to me.. must be that fishes are relaxing thing.

My cosmic fish.. sort of feels like he's sitting out there in universe, like a living astrological sign: pisces

[ConsAreLiars]

10. The Very Subjectless Abstraction is made all

the more interesting by the ripples, which give a context. And that fish, well, it's just cosmic!

[NV Whino]

15. Not quite so abstract

I love edge of water shots and the varying textures.