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My World: Dead End.

fahim mohammed

Well-known member
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Asher Kelman

OPF Owner/Editor-in-Chief
Nope! It's the beginning! That's where the water comes from! This is a magnificent vista.

Imagine, when out ancestors left Africa, they went into this? They must have been nuts!

Asher
 

Tom Robbins

Active member
This is a wonderful scene, Fahim. The craggy mountains on the left and right sides work like bookends to frame the center range with its smoother contours.
 

Asher Kelman

OPF Owner/Editor-in-Chief
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Fahim,

This is both impressive and beautiful. I sense 4 special rhythms, the sea, the single strike of the coast, those jagged snow laced mountains and then the cloud dusted sky.

One booster to this is the cloud in the center repeating the shape of the mountains.

So relaxing! I so love beauty .................... and this is what you have delivered!

Asher

Where is this?
 

Tom Robbins

Active member
We're in the middle of a hot and dry spell here in the Midwest, Fahim, so this latest color image is quite refreshing. Just an observation; the color image has much less noise than the earlier b&w one. This may have been due to choices made during processing, but is of little consequence.
 

fahim mohammed

Well-known member
Tom, thanks a lot for pointing the ' noise ' issue. I have to keep that in check.
Grateful you could stop by.

Best regards.

We're in the middle of a hot and dry spell here in the Midwest, Fahim, so this latest color image is quite refreshing. Just an observation; the color image has much less noise than the earlier b&w one. This may have been due to choices made during processing, but is of little consequence.
 

fahim mohammed

Well-known member
Asher, thank you so very much for our encouraging comments.

The studio owner provided everything for free. The lights, backdrops, colors, and the subject.
Beautiful Studio!

My work...Point and Shoot!

Warmest regards.

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Fahim,

This is both impressive and beautiful. I sense 4 special rhythms, the sea, the single strike of the coast, those jagged snow laced mountains and then the cloud dusted sky.

One booster to this is the cloud in the center repeating the shape of the mountains.

So relaxing! I so love beauty .................... and this is what you have delivered!

Asher

Where is this?
 

Sam Hames

New member
It really is beautiful - I feel a mysterious pull, the power of something exotic and alien (to me!). I want to keep looking deeper for that something new over the edge.
 

fahim mohammed

Well-known member
Sam, I really appreciate your gracious comments.

Thank you so very much and my best wishes to you and yours.


It really is beautiful - I feel a mysterious pull, the power of something exotic and alien (to me!). I want to keep looking deeper for that something new over the edge.
 

fahim mohammed

Well-known member
Robert, appreciate you stopping by. And thank you for the comment. Something for me to re-consider; re:
the clouds.

Best regards.

This is a nicely balanced image compositionally - very pleasing to the eye. I personally wonder if the clouds overpower the image - but that may just be my taste. Well done.
 

Asher Kelman

OPF Owner/Editor-in-Chief
You were correct Asher. It is not a dead end.

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Just the beginning.


Fahim,

Hopefully for Aleppo too! What an amazing city. Why do I think of this ancient metropolis right now? Well, the mountains are carved and elevated by major forces. We give thanks to the beauty, but few of us actually live there. The great cities are also made with slow incremental herculean effort. We need to be in awe of that too.

If madmen tried to destroy Mont Blanc or Everest, we'd be outraged. Try even dropping trash in St Moritz or peeing on the sidewalk in Paris! But for Aleppo, we just let it crumble!

I do not want to shift your thread to the political, but remark that we humans have a capacity for selective outrage. This may come from taking for granted the gifts bestowed on us. The scenes you show, Fahim, outlast our views on everything, always so beautiful.

I wish there was some way to have folk look at natural beauty and then have it carry over to what others cultures built with so much human love. In your travel pictures, whether with the humble point and shoot or with the M8, you do show a respect for the efforts of man in his home. Now, I know it's not built into Japanese or German cameras of any level. So how do we also do it?

Asher
 
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