Away from it All
by Natasha

Comment by pncowley:
Wow it's so green. Fits the challenge very well. I think if I was doing this, I would have cropped the bottom and gotten a bit closer to the house. You couldn't ask for better scenery than this, though. Not a telephone pole in sight. Amazing.

Away from it All
by Natasha

Comment by JB707:
Beautiful shot, nice colors, the red barn? adds interest to the picture, nice detail in the foreground, good job...

Stillness
by Natasha

Comment by inspzil:
Greetings from the Critique Club
By Inspzil

I think this will generally focus on my comment during the challenge, so it might not be real long. This is genuinely 3 very good pictures. I'm just not sure I like them together. I'm not going to follow my normal format either. I'm just going to ramble until I feel I've made my point. Or until I figure out that you know better than I do and then I'll just give up :)

I felt like the middle image disrupted the continuity of the other 2 images. The other 2 images are awesome silhouettes of some landscape and 2 fishing boats. The center image is an unmanned boat thru a tree or two. The branches in that picture oppose the ones in the rightmost picture and I feel that kind of makes the pictures do the same. It might have been better placed in the first or last frame instead of the middle. I'm trying to picture it that way, but at least in my head, it still doesn't fit. I think the best example of "stillness" is the third pic. I think it's in the spot it needs to be to fulfill the title and leave the viewer with that image. The leftmost image is pretty good, but the water looks a bit choppier and there are 2 guys in the boat.

I keep having this odd sensation about the middle image, like the guys have fallen off the boat and it's washed up to shore here, under this tree. It's kind of morbid and all, but it's the picture in my head that this keeps reminding me of. Maybe if there were a man fishing in it quietly it would not make me think of that. Well for what it's worth, these are my thoughts on this photo. I hope it doesn't offend you at all and I'm not saying it sucks or anything. You beat me :)

Keep taking these wonderful pictures the rest of your time in Nippon and good luck with moving. - Bob

(It was you who said in the forums they were moving right?)

Stillness
by Natasha

Comment by matt betea:
Nice work on this. I like perspective in this, showing man against the vastness off mountains. Good luck.

Stillness
by Natasha

Comment by wingy:
These shots do an incredible job of creating the feeling of stillness and wonder. Incredible work. 10

Stillness
by Natasha

Comment by jmsetzler:
very hice work... i particularly like the center image... the boat through the trees is great :) - setzler

Stillness
by Natasha

Comment by jodiecoston:
Beautiful. Each image stands well on its own. The high-contrast silhouettes work very well. 9

Stillness
by Natasha

Comment by Robro:
very pleasant, but doesnt need the caption...

Stillness
by Natasha

Comment by carsten:
Great idea. Perfect in b&w. Perhaps I had chosen to mirror left picture to make it "look" into the center. Overall a triptych I like very much. Well done and good luck!

Stillness
by Natasha

Comment by jjbeguin:
nice series and atmosphere, since there is already a sense of symetry given by the images, i would not have centered the caption. White lines around each image are probably not neccessary. Try to create your lines when the image has been changed to the size you will submit it, you will get a much cleaner result. 7