Ironically, my favourite image from this reportage and documentary photography master is a landscape, which directly inspired this image, made just before the coming rain forced me back into the car. Dean's Marsh, near Lorne, Victoria, Australia.
I was pleasantly surprised to find an hommage to the same image in a portfolio of the work of one of my favourite photographers, Michael Kenna!
Thanks, Alan. Quite a number of people think it is my best image - ironic considering how borrowed it really is! At least I acknowledge my sources... Further irony: for all the simplicity, I spent hours getting the right amount of leafy detail in that row of trees - the less there is in an image, the more the detail is exposed to scrutiny. But at least in the end, I thought it was absolutely the best I could manage. No going back to RAW for a fresh start here.
...and I love the subtle use of of the clouds - dark and brooding above to frame and enhance the somber mood below.
Thanks, Alan.
Since my reply to your previous comment, a friend (?) has suggested that the foreground tree is two-dimensional, and needs modelling like the row ot trees. I'm NOT going back to RAW, but... sigh...
fabulously taken <3
Thanks, Hanaa!
Funny, before reading this immediately struck me as Kenna'ish.
Simple, but effective.