July Challenge - MINIMALISM I
Great challenge Alan.
Fun to re-visit a very complex and difficult subject.
It is has been lots fun the explore all the images submitted for this challenge and I urge everyone to have a look as well.
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They are very, very minimalistic!
The 1st owns a beautiful mirroring of twigs, it appears a bit dark for me.
2nd contains a bit an unexpected swing in the staircase. That adds the magic 'something'. Great!
No 4 follows a maximized symmetry approach, and fullfills it!
Well done!
Thanks for taking the time to comment 🙏
I'm so glad that some of these resonated with you.
Just cast my votes on the contest site, Julian! Nice work.
Thank you 🙏
Your support and encouragement for this group is always very appreciated Ms. J.
Lol, Mr. J.
The first three are great! (I'll have to think about why I'm not crazy at all about the 4th one. haha)
Great set Julian, thanks for posting.
I find your first dark and mysterious - I think the light gradation from upper right gives and extra dimension.
Similarly, I don't think the staircase would have the same appeal without that lovely twist in the stairs.
I love the way you have seen things in 3 & 4. I quite like the novelty of #4, and the fact that the striped line is not perpendicular to the verticals.
Wow, I didn't know this group existed until this morning. But I am jazzed to be here! I love this kind of stuff.
By far the best place in fstoppers. You do great work yourself - very Ansel Adams!
Thank you very much. I am one generation removed from him in terms of instruction. Several of my mentors were mentored by Adams. Though I try to not be imitative, principles and concepts of his are used. By imitative I mean going and looking for his tripod holes. I have found some of them, but refrained from trying to imitate.
I was in Portugal trying to get a photo of myself. I asked a guy to take my photo outlining how to keep me in the upper left so that it would show the cliff off to the right as well as the ocean below. It took 4 times and he never got what I wanted even though I tried to show him exactly what I wanted. The thing I learned that day was, even if someone is standing in the exact spot, NO ONE takes the same picture. It's pretty well damn near impossible! I wouldn't worry about trying to imitate! hahaha
I totally agree with the goal of distancing your work from imitation.
It reminds me of a story from a photographer that I have followed from some years, relayed here;
https://colethompsonphotography.com/2009/08/11/images-remind-ansel-adam…
I firmly believe that you cannot imitate if wishing to be viewed as an artist in tour own right.
Nice article. I know of Cole Thompson, though not well. His work is nice, and he is completely correct. You will never be Ansel Adams, or Morley Baer, or either of the Westons, and the list goes on. You can be who you are, and you can learn from their ideas and ways of doing things. That trait is called wisdom, and I need more of it.