MinimalDay17Web.jpg
by cogerox

Comment by Melethia:
I remember the sun/no-sun from days (rare!) of thunderstorms in Texas. Very nice scene, and I love the sun look. I need a 60mm lens... that really is awesome detail.

MinimalDay17Web.jpg
by cogerox

Comment by KarenNfld:
Very sharp and what a lovely scene

MinimalDay17.2Web.jpg
by cogerox

Comment by MelonMusketeer:
This has a very different look from the one with the sun in the foreground. That was good in camera editing to wait for the sun to come across the foreground and shoot again. The sunny one is a much stronger image. The sun helped a lot to bring out the power of the storm in the hills in that image.

MinimalDay17Web.jpg
by cogerox

Comment by MelonMusketeer:
You were right about this being a beautiful scene. I like the rolling hills under the heavy cloud cover and the very rural looking homes there. The light really works to bring out the foreground area in this one, and the dark foreboding clouds add a lot of drama and energy to the top half. I wouldn't complain if my images had this much sharpness, this is fine at this size. Maybe blown up you can see edges, but it looks plenty sharp to me. Good capture. Waiting pays off again.

MinimalDay17.2Web.jpg
by cogerox

Comment by roz:
it really is a beautiful image without the sun, but the sun is like you've gone and given it a lift in photoshop!! .... and i can see by where the animals are that this would've been within a couple of minutes of your sun image ... amazing wot a few minutes can do eh?? .. you know i do like the deeper green in this one in the foreground tho ....... in fact i think this one is taking my fancy now .... seems like i'm all confused!! ... be great to just give the 'appearance' of sunlight on the buildings, the animals and that general area, which'd create a focal point in the image .. just my opinion and you should know by now, i cant look at a photograph without seeing things i'd like to do to it in photoshop ....
did i tell you about the post processing challenge site started by jeff smurfguy
this is the link post processing challenge .. its where people submit one of their own photographs for other ppl to edit ..... i had submitted one of my cow shots and it was extremely interesting to see how other ppl approached the edit of that photograph ...

Slippery Circles
by cogerox

Comment by roz:
came to check out your other stuff and hadnt seen this excellent circle entry ...... fantastic idea with your angle .. it should have done heaps better in the challenge .. but as i always say ...'the voters suck'.. obviously they wont when i get better scores tho !!...

just read don's posthumous comment .. couldnt have said it better myself .. if you're different then you'll suffer the consequences!!!!!!!! ... and i shall continue to do so ...........

MinimalDay17Web.jpg
by cogerox

Comment by roz:
stunning shot and absolutely worth all that mucking around .. like going home disappointed and not being able to hand around, coming back and nothing, waiting around and then bammmmmm.. i'd have been quite excited!!! knowing the light was a very short lived thing & hoping to get a great shot in the limited time etc etc .. love your composition .. the light is awesome .. we've been having lots of thunderstorms lately and when the it combines with sunlight its just amazing ... so intense ...
the colours in this unedited image are just beautiful right now ..

MinimalDay16.1Web.jpg
by cogerox

Comment by KarenNfld:
That's a neat composition.

MinimalDay16.1Web.jpg
by cogerox

Comment by roz:
love the beautiful colours in this as well as the excellent abstract feel ... i can be inclined to get a bit 'busy' so the simplicity of this grabs me too ...

Slippery Circles
by cogerox

Comment by posthumous:
greetings from the critique club!

There is a finite number of variables with a photograph, and one of the most important is POV. You've picked an exciting one here. Seeing a child from below is a reversal of our expectations, and creates a dreamlike effect, which is only enhanced by the bubbles. Since you've got my imagination engaged, I now wish the bubblemaking hole were over her eye, like a pink monocle, since the magic of photographs goes in through the eye, and the magic of bubbles comes out through that hole. Also, it would complete the reversal, since she would be looking through a viewfinder just as the photographer does. everything else about the photograph is perfect: the tones, the varying visibilities of the bubbles, some appearing only as vague circles, some disappearing into the sky, the rich colors of the tree, even the falling drop of bubblegoo(?). I love it all. Magical. Notice how the perspective kind of makes her equivalent to the tree, suggesting how natural she is, how beautiful and confident, simple and strong. Not that the picture is about her. The picture is about transformation, about the alteration of consciousness. She is acting like a tourguide.

Why didn't you score higher? Because people fear magic. People don't want their consciousness altered.

How do you score higher next time? Stay on the surface of our conventional illusion. Do not question authority. Do not color outside the lines. Do not give in to joy. Cage it. Tie strings to its wrists and ankles and make it dance for you with steps enumerated in the Lowest Common Denominator Playbook.