There are other things going on

[pecunium]

Not just the project in the previous post.

I have a couple of new pieces up at TKP. I realise no one wants to have more passwords to keep track of, but you can comment there.

And I've got some more photos up; as I work my way through the images from Ottawa.

Jagged Gap


I like the sense of motion, and danger. It's not a rapid one wants to travel. Not only is the water cold, but the slightest mistake in "line" and the ice will eat you.

The Frozen Leaf


That's my favorite version of that one (I did three treatments), because the detail in the leaf is so plain.


Blanketed


This one is just so stark, and the last one I'm going to post here is just such a contrast:

Drooping

Comments

[pgdudda.livejournal.com]

I love the "Drooping" picture! Thanks for sharing!

[zeeth_kyrah]

Sense of scale is missing from the first image, "The Jagged Gap"; I had to read between the lines of your commentary to infer that this scene is of a river wide enough for a kayak.

[cakmpls.livejournal.com]

The third one has amazing texture and is striking, but I don't really "like" it; it makes me vaguely uncomfortable (if that's useful info to you, all the better). The leaf-cicle is my favorite.

I just realized that the three I like (a great deal!) are all vertical, and the one I don't is horizontal. I'll have to watch for that in viewing in the future, to see whether I have some overall preference for verticality. Thanks for the possible insight!

[pecunium.livejournal.com]

The third picture isn't a, "like" sort of shot. If it makes you feel unomfortable then it's doing a good job of conveying the hostility of ice, and of rivers when the ice breaks.

I have a hard time with the emotional impact of pictures, even when I'm playing with them to try and evoke them. I know too much, and see so many things in them.

By the time you see them I've seen them at leat five times (at capture, in initial edit. Edit to web resolution (different programs), upload to flickr, posting them here.

[starcat-jewel.livejournal.com]

Bright red berries! I should know what those are, but I'm blanking at the moment. The contrast between subject and background is very eye-catching.

[pecunium.livejournal.com]

When I asked what they were the only answer was, "poisonous"

[commodorified.livejournal.com]

"Poisonous" is all I know, and for most practical purposes it seemed a sufficient answer, but alas.

Well, poisonous to humans; birds eat them, I think.

I shall try to remember to get a cameraphone shot sometime when the bushes have leaves.

[soul-diaspora.livejournal.com]

I love the berries. Like the first and second pictures too. The third one reminds me too much of how spring isn't here yet ;-P

[pecunium.livejournal.com]

I think that (sense of not spring yet) comes of the bare tree.

The blankets of ice are, oddly enough signs of the incipient spring. A week earlier it was colder, and they weren't as thick.