Ice Sheet, Juneau Alaska

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Last Ice of Spring. Sony DKC-Id1 digital. I was attracted to the layers a texture formed by the ice sheet.

-- Micheal F. Kelly (Kellys@Alaska.net), August 29, 1998

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Very interesting mix of elements. The subtle colors and simple design make this very attractive to me. There are lots of other possible ways to frame these elements, so I hope you spent some time composing in different ways.

This is a perfect example of a color image that has the subtlety of well rendered B&W with the added dimension of color, as if it was hand-tinted. This is quite different from the color-for-its-own-sake images which typify most color photography.

Frank

-- Frank Kolwicz (bb389@lafn.org), August 30, 1998.


As an abstract this shot has potential. I dislike in the current composition the fact that the ice splits the frame horizontally almost in half. Moving tho the left more would have openned up the black triangle. I think I would then like it more. Infact, if you crop a third of the shot off the right, then it's square, and I like it!

-- Paul Lenson (lenson@pci.on.ca), August 31, 1998.

Thanks for the comments Frank and Paul. I didn't think the composition would look as good with all of the 4 objects the same size. Paul, don't you think if it were square that it would be a little to symmetrical?

-- Micheal F. Kelly (Kellys@clipper.net), August 31, 1998.

Geometrically, yes, but content, no. Hence, the nice contrast!

-- Paul Lenson (lenson@pci.on.ca), August 31, 1998.

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