Moss Gardens

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This is an image I can't make my mind up on. Sometimes I like it other times it seems pretty ordinary. It was taken in a side gorge called the "Moss Gardens" in the Carnarvon Nat.Park Queensland Australia. I would also like to thank Andrei for giving those of us without web pages the opportunity to post our images.

-- Sean Corley (corley@plpk.uq.edu.au), March 01, 1999

Answers

Sean -- This is an image that takes some looking at and thinking about. You have some good sharp detail in the rocks and mosses, and the colors are nicely saturated. However, my eye needs a "resting place", and it keeps chosing to rest on the rust color patch of moss. My suggestion would be to make that your center of interest by cropping the image so that that is at a 1/3 location. My daughter Lise and I played with cropping a bit and decided our preverence would be to keep the green mosses surrounding the rust moss, and cover all that is above that area (about the top 1/5th of the image) This helps create a diagonal line and balance of the size (one large "rock" vs many smaller ones). Hope I havn't gotten too wordy here. LKJ

-- Linda Johnson (and Lise) (lkjohns@gateway.net), March 01, 1999.

Yes, some radical re-cropping of this image would do it a lot of good. Eliminating a lot of the foreground and especailly the bright object on the left yields a stronger design and an image I think you will like.

Frank

-- Frank Kolwicz (bb389@lafn.org), March 05, 1999.


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