S T O R M
by Bear_Music

Comment by trevytrev:
Way to go and get Ubique all fired up, though he makes excellent points! This is quite the storm, bending the tree at will, great use of the lens.

H A R S H • B A B Y
by Bear_Music

Comment by ErinM:
Inspires all kinds of thoughts, doesn't it? Fun stuff.

I'm Dreaming of a White Christmas
by Bear_Music

Comment by moolacoola:
I enjoy the feel of this photo as if i'm walking down this road

The Passing Lane
by Bear_Music

Comment by poser:
good

3 Blind Flamingos
by Bear_Music

Comment by cgino:
Love the look of the snow flying at the window, and those garish, out-of-place pink famingos weathering the storm.

"The woods are lovely, dark and deep..."
by Bear_Music

Comment by Dr.Confuser:
Great photo to start with. Stark B&W works well. Motion blur is distracting.

S T O R M
by Bear_Music

Comment by Jutilda:
I commented on someone else's that I felt a sense of vertigo. I really like the abstractness of this. I know it's a tree but yet it has a life of its own when distorted and blurred. NICE ONE.

S T O R M
by Bear_Music

Comment by cgino:
I am first struck by the deep rich colors, the purple sky and merlot trees are so pleasing to my eye. Then whoosh! I am taken away on the stormy wind to lands unknown. Yummy!

S T O R M
by Bear_Music

Comment by ubique:
This is a nice frame for the image. I can't really believe I'm commenting about a frame (I'll be lecturing you about the Rule of Thirds next, or blathering about 'distractions'). But it is. This absorbing photograph is definitely elevated by the choice of framing.

I've never agreed with all this carping about photographs not needing frames, or not needing titles. Just yesterday I read a forum comment from some twit saying that "if a photograph needs a title, the photographer has failed". What absolute balderdash! By that logic Milton's Paradise Lost would instead be known as Untitled – and we can't find it either. And The Mona Lisa would probably be filed under Chicks, Enigmatic, No 56392.

If frames are 'distracting', if titles are an admission of failure, then the person calling them so must have the imagination and intellectual curiosity of a fire bucket. An empty fire bucket.

Thank you Bear, for so graciously hosting my impromptu rant.

S T O R M
by Bear_Music

Comment by krnodil:
Stormy and threatening.