Here is the 50m high cliff of Etretat (Normandy, France).
This is a landscape photography. But it could an in between photography like an abstract or conceptual piece of landscape. I like the mood due to the cloudy sky and the none colors of the cliff whici is made of chalk rocks (white lines) and flint layers (black lines).
This is a long exposure photography to obtain a flat surface of the ocean dealing good with the soft and quit sky.
Cliff of Etretat (France)
Personal opinion here: The processing is done pretty decently. I personally believe that as a landscape, this is plain and has a lot of empty space. You mentioned the abstract conceptual idea. I feel that viewing this image through that “lens” (Photography puns) might make this appear stronger. I have no idea what the conditions were so I can’t definitively say do this or that to make it better. I do like what you have here. Really different :)
Good image, David! I like "abstract"(-ish) images of landscapes and other aspects of the real world. I like your off-centre composition, the use of lots of sky, the low horizon. And your processing, somewhat high-key but with the striations in the cliff just right, adds to it. Well done.
You might like Michael Kenna's work, if you don't know it already.
Whether we call it "landscape" or "abstract" or "conceptual" doesn't mean or matter much in the end, in my opinion. They're useful terms for shorthand descriptions of a general image type or genre (and for naming Fstoppers groups!).
I've wondered about starting an "abstract" or other group myself.
Hi Chris,
Thanks a lot for allowing me to discover Michael Kenna's works. I did not know him.
You ought to create a new group about landscape abtractions ou kind of summarizing ways landscapes by extracting some pieces. I will join!
David
Hi David! Your image here particularly reminds me of Kenna's images made in Japan.
Re: the group, I fear the focus may be too narrow to attract enough members, and the border between abstract and other landscape is so hard to define. I got good feedback for a fairly abstract waterfall image from the Landscape & Nature group. I'll think some more about it. Idea: YOU start it, and I'll join! :-)
I must admit that there is a lot of more "documentary" landscape posted by the group, and many people seem to expect "interest" in every corner of the frame. "War & Peace" versus haiku.