Shadows of a Lost Faith by JSWaters

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16-JAN-2007

Mission Tumacocori
Tubac, Arizona

Two others added today:

Canon EOS 5D
1/400s f/7.1 at 56.0mm iso100 hide exif

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Guest		04-Jul-2007 18:54
Shrouded With the stain Of forget-me-nots.

Kal Khogali		22-May-2007 15:59
The longest shadows fall at the end of the day. I see tis more than lost faith, its about lost hope and life. A very moody image. With your current title, the blue suits. K

Guest		20-May-2007 17:57
The time of the day, with the shadow that touches the trees, and with these remains of the day in the back was perfectly shosen here. The darkness of the scene and the light on the cross is highly symbolic. Believer or not, this is a strong image.

shatterbug		19-May-2007 05:49
I like this the way it is, Jenene. The cool tones work for me, as I see the tree trying to swallow the cross. The light on the cross is just perfect...

Phil Douglis		18-May-2007 23:04
I should have said red and yellow, not read and yellow. Sorry.

Phil Douglis		18-May-2007 23:03
I never saw this image until just now, Jenene. I must have missed it when I scanned the thumbs in my favorite artists list. Thanks for asking for feedback on it. It is eerie and haunted, well abstracted, and quite symbolic. You and I and Kal talked at length about the role of a cross as a photographic symbol after my futile attempts a meaningful dialog on my Keane Wonder Mine image with Mr. Paxton ended. This particular cross works largely because of the shadow connecting it to the bare trees. It represents man's own tree -- the tree of faith. It has a trunk and it has a branch, and it too, is bare of life.It is this barren quality that gives this image its haunted tone. If you can rework the color in this image in photoshop to take some of the blue and purple out of it, and add some read and yellow to warm it a bit, I think you could enhance the mood here in terms of an image about the presence of faith. As it now stands, the blue/purple cast is cold and austere, and speaks more of a lack of faith, when viewed along with the barren trees and cross. Was that why you used this color? Hope this helps, and sorry for missing it. The juxtapositions in this image make it more expressive for me than either of other two images in the thumbs below.

Roe..		18-May-2007 13:57
I'm speechless..what an amazing photograph..

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