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Ian Cameron

Awakening

Glascarnoch, Strathgarve, scotland.

Okay I know it doesn't exactly slap you between the eyes like a fisherman with a part frozen kipper, but I love its water colour quietness, the cold clamminess of an autumnal dawn. I have stared at this for quite a while debating whether or not to upload it and I've finally succumbed, my image, my choice, apologies if it does nothing for you, but do drink it in for a while because I find the sense of quiet peace and utter tranquility to be deeply satisfying.

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Pentax 67 II ,55-100 zoom,Fujichrome Velvia
0.6ND grad, f/16 at 1/2 sec. full exif

other sizes: small medium original auto
Zane Paxton19-Oct-2008 00:40
I love the composition and mood; a very lovely image. Your words to describe the experience are poetic and visceral.

Then I find myself pondering the possibilities of how to enhance that sense of "being there", which would be an attempt to merge what you describe of the rich physical experience and the resulting purely visual expression that you selected.

Consider that normal human binocular vision is about 160 degrees wide. So in effect we walk around seeing the world with what we might call a "panoramic view" format to equate that to photographic approaches. So then "normal" is really a panoramic format view. So then it follows that to select a smaller 6x7 format (or any other camera format) view is abnormal. That is a long way of saying that my sense is that a wider view would enhance that sense of being there at it matches the way we see; that becomes a way to translate those visceral physical sensations into purely visual terms. Given that the tools of the computer age to merge and stitch images into just about any desired proportion are readily available and inexpensive, that tends to challenge the traditional discipline of working within a fixed format view. So given the new tools at our disposal, at what point is a particular view a habit of useful discipline or a limitation? Hope that is food for thought.

Cheers
Michelle Albert 11-Oct-2008 02:40
Peace and beauty in the stillness...absolutely love it...
McGarva10-Oct-2008 21:15
Moody shot ... crisp morning ... V
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