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My World: Alpine Scenery
- Thread starter Michael Nagel
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Asher Kelman
OPF Owner/Editor-in-Chief
Michael,
This is a major addition to our viewing pleasure! It sets a good mood that we want to return to!
Such images do not rely just on "beauty" to get our appreciation, affection and devoted following. Rather, I would suggest, it's the openness to allowing us to bring our dreaming and musing to set forth a play or happening that otherwise could only take place deep down in our brains, inside the more cluttered "Cathedral of the Mind".
In short, as you might have guessed, I like this a lot!
Asher
Bill McCarthy
Member
Michael,
This is a major addition to our viewing pleasure! It sets a good mood that we want to return to!
Such images do not rely just on "beauty" to get our appreciation, affection and devoted following. Rather, I would suggest, it's the openness to allowing us to bring our dreaming and musing to set forth a play or happening that otherwise could only take place deep down in our brains, inside the more cluttered "Cathedral of the Mind".
In short, as you might have guessed, I like this a lot!
Asher
Michael,
Very nice image, and I think Asher is spot on. The world would be a better place if we spent more of our time dreaming and musing; loosing ourselves as we mentally drift and experience our inner soul. I am always rewarded when I free myself from the every day grind and fall mentally into that separate experience. Thank you for sharing this with us. (PS, Asher, do they still have happenings? I thought they were a thing of the sixties).
Bill
Michael Nagel
Well-known member
Asher Kelman
OPF Owner/Editor-in-Chief
Michael,
Great layering of the picture components with each of a 12 or more layers of varying shapes and sizes, so inviting for exploration and well-executed. Once again, as is your style, there's no evidence of processing or artificiality. We are actually there, seeing what you saw and that is so refreshing.
The sky is especially wonderful, with billowing clouds enveloping the mountains in a delicate flourish that make a final signature of the piece, giving it that extra tad of spirit and sense of being alive.
You state at the onset, "Alpine Scenery - Nothing else. An interpretation." This picture, however, has, (in addition to its obvious beauty), much more to offer. It's a complex work that nature has given to you to bring to us, but just imagine this printed 1 meter high on a large wall with 3 meters away a comfortable bench from which to view it, with no agenda in mind, just escaping the demands of our busy schedule.
Asher
Michael Nagel
Well-known member
Thanks. It is simply because there was no further processing apart from reducing the size. No crop either.
The mountains shall be seen and explored with respect, as they are not always that nice, just see.
These are the remains from a sizeable rock fall three years ago. Still the same day and the same valley.
The road was literally cut and the landscape changed.
The rebuilt road is a little furher up but cannot be seen, just guessed:
Taken from the rebuit road further up.
Best regards,
Michael
Asher Kelman
OPF Owner/Editor-in-Chief
Thanks. It is simply because there was no further processing apart from reducing the size. No crop either.
The mountains shall be seen and explored with respect, as they are not always that nice, just see.
These are the remains from a sizeable rock fall three years ago. Still the same day and the same valley.
The road was literally cut and the landscape changed.
The rebuilt road is a little furher up but cannot be seen, just guessed:
Taken from the rebuit road further up.
Michael,
The broken path introduces the strong metaphor of "Life as a journey!" with the challenge being the massive mountain range to pass through. This alone is enough to make the picture work and allow us to imagine anything further.
The contrasting rough foreground terrain also offers more. To me, it invites consideration of insertion of a main subject matter, such as a such as a mountain lion, dog, goat, or person. Not often I'm really jealous, but here, I wish I had made these two pictures, so I'd actually have these choices myself.
Asher
Michael Nagel
Well-known member
Asher,
mountain lions are not a native species here, cannot help you with this.
The following two are a little more idyllic, but the origin is the same - a rockslide.
The considerably larger rockslide 3500 years ago (15 million cubic meters) is the origin of the lake shown.
Best regards,
Michael
mountain lions are not a native species here, cannot help you with this.
The following two are a little more idyllic, but the origin is the same - a rockslide.
The considerably larger rockslide 3500 years ago (15 million cubic meters) is the origin of the lake shown.
Best regards,
Michael