Thanks for posting all four photos. It makes it even more interesting to study the different compositions available from the same spot. Surprisingly I do not have a favourite and any one of them does justice to the scene and the area.
The landscape here is stunning, and well worth a visit, and I like how you have included some of those visitors in your compositions, as well as other man made objects such as the viaduct and houses in the valley. Many landscape photographers try to avoid this like the plague, but if they are in close proximity, then I find it interesting to show both and their symbiosis, juxtaposition or encroachment.
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Th composition is nicely balanced with a rather ugly building on the left and an elegant bridge on the right and the buildings of a city between them. At first sight the modern buildings could be dismissed as monotonous rectangles, but closer study reveals a depth of interesting facades and shapes.
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Mike has already pointed out the things I wanted to say. I would just add that I enjoyed the two hands gripping the railings, and penetrating that black band of fence.
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Well done to everyone involved in creating this image, and especially to Alan for doing the lion’s share of the work. It has been an interesting process and discussion and I think this has everything kept or removed in the best way.
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Needless to say I like this one. It has so many ingredients to give endless fun at interpreting it, knowing full well there is no right or wrong answer.
My favourite bit is the top left corner. The real world, represented by a building and cars, is in fact just a reflection, and is linked by a brush-stroke of black to an imaginary world of a woman asleep on a fantasy animal, but which is actually a direct image and not a mere reflection. -
Very simple and very effective, and after looking for a while, not so simple.
The ripples are like a fingerprint, which has quite a complicated and irregular pattern, despite seeming so regular at first sight.
I like how the transition from dark to bright, and how the contours are picked out by the dark shadows on the right and by the highlights on the left. -
Was this taken at Wimbledon? Probably not. I would guess it is almost as much work to create and maintain that flat playing surface in the Outback as it is to maintain the lush lawn-tennis courts in England.
The combination of a beautiful, wild and sparsely populated bush landscape with a tennis court, which is a place for people to meet and play, and implies a reasonable population with social contact to keep it going, is a delicious enigma for a European like me. -
I like the little bright, blurred fairy Suns dancing in front of the rough dark bark of the tree. The colours and the scene somehow evoke happiness and optimism.
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The sheer beauty of the natural world is brought together with a technical world, which has a beauty of its own. The technical world is superimposed onto the natural world, which could be a message! In any case, those towering clouds in gorgeous light are fantastic.