Drawn by snow

Gallery: LandscapePosted February 8, 20121,139 views29 comments

Siberian pines, standing tall against the driven snow. Could be a pencil drawing, methinks.

Katon-Karagai National Park in the Altai-Sayan Mountains of East Kazakhstan - a place I was privileged to visit, all too briefly, in November 2011.

thanks for looking; thanks for comments on my last post - let me know what you think here - all feedback is very welcome and useful.

hasselblad 500c/m, 150mm, tripod, Ilford Delta 100 b&w film, remote cable.

Comments

29 comments

Comment posted by David Chauvin on February 8, 2012 at 5:45 AM

very cool,,,,,,it does indeed look like a fine sketch. The comp and b&w processing look great.

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Comment posted by Hamed Musharbak on February 8, 2012 at 5:55 AM

love it

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Comment posted by Cristina Strudthof on February 8, 2012 at 7:55 AM

Very nice, everything works for me

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Comment posted by Dan Baumbach on February 8, 2012 at 8:16 AM

Beautiful.

- Dan

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Comment posted by Martin W. Quinn on February 8, 2012 at 9:23 AM

Great shot!

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Comment posted by Bill Chambers on February 8, 2012 at 9:27 AM

Excellent - love everything about it - no nits at all.

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Comment posted by Peter Richter on February 8, 2012 at 12:26 PM

Stuart, I appeciate your sensitive composition very much. A consistent b&w image and an advantageous use of the square formate in my opinion.

Peter

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Comment posted by Morris McClung on February 8, 2012 at 1:02 PM

That is a masterful comp imo! And the conversion feels dead-on to the great qualities of Ilford film. I always used Ilford when I shot B&W film. I hope this ends up in a gallery somewhere, or at least on your wall!

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Comment posted by Nancy Lea Sandy on February 8, 2012 at 4:21 PM

Beautiful and artistic. Perfectly captured.

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Comment posted by Stan Rose on February 8, 2012 at 5:12 PM

Super cool!

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Comment posted by Paul Gasior on February 8, 2012 at 6:09 PM

Beautiful winter scene

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Comment posted by Nick Bristol on February 8, 2012 at 6:19 PM

This is a wonderful image, Stuart. Really like this just as you have it here. Excellent work!

Nick Bristol
Lone Rock, WI

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Comment posted by Eva McDermott on February 8, 2012 at 7:18 PM

Very graphic and enjoyable to look at Stuart. Excellent B&W film image. I can only imagine how wonderful a large print of this would look!

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Comment posted by Craig Myers on February 9, 2012 at 12:35 AM

Fantastic graphic composition.

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Comment posted by Gary McGhee on February 9, 2012 at 6:14 AM

This looks really great Stuart, you're right it could be a pencil drawing. It really suits the square format and your comp is spot on. Love all the snow sticking to the trunks.

Gary.

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Comment posted by Emmanuel Coupe on February 9, 2012 at 7:15 AM

This is a wonderful capture and equally excellent B&W treatment.

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Comment posted by Jim Bullard on February 9, 2012 at 9:11 AM

There is something about a B&W film image in square format that sucks me in almost every time. Very nice. If I'm to critique it at all, the only suggestion I might make is that you could make it a touch brighter. Your brightest pixels (aside from the white pin line between the image and the black frame) are at around 250. OTOH it is a fog scene and wouldn't have been bright so you've probably hit it just about right for this particular subject.

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Comment posted by Michael J Greene, on February 9, 2012 at 12:05 PM

Nice work Stuart. I love scenes like this.

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Comment posted by Ed Lowe on February 9, 2012 at 12:58 PM

I love a good B&W and this certainly falls in that category, Stuart. The graphic repeating lines of the tres work beautifully with the falling snow.

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Comment posted by Stuart Williams on February 9, 2012 at 2:10 PM

thanks to all for comments.

jim - i did actually process this a little brighter and um'ed and ah'ed for a while and then finally went for this which seemed 'more right' as it were. thanks again!

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Comment posted by INGOMA on February 9, 2012 at 3:44 PM

This has a very powerful graphical element, Stuart. The tree trunks with white line of snow through the middle are the most striking element here. Excellent.

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Comment posted by Harley Goldman on February 9, 2012 at 6:13 PM

Beautiful! Wonderful winter scene. It feels cold just looking at it.

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Comment posted by Bill Maile on February 10, 2012 at 8:23 AM

Love it Stuart, no nits here!

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Comment posted by Kent Mearig on February 10, 2012 at 11:00 AM

I was looking for a scene like this the other day, deeper in a spruce forest. I couldn't find it. You've presented this wonderfully.

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Comment posted by Scott Smorra on February 10, 2012 at 1:12 PM

This is a really cool image Stuart and b/w was a great choice for this scene. I like how the tree trunks are all covered in snow. You did a good job composing the scene to get some separation between the trees. Well done

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Comment posted by Vance Gese on February 10, 2012 at 8:40 PM

Fantastic, Stuart, simply fantastic. Love those deep blacks and lines of the trees in the foreground and how the fog and diminishing contrast of the gray tones as the eye moves back, creates such a sense of depth. Hope you print this big. Superb work. Superb art.

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Comment posted by Robert Dayton on February 10, 2012 at 10:57 PM

A superb winter scenic, Stuart! The tree trunks are so graphic.

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Comment posted by Ant on February 12, 2012 at 4:49 AM

I saw it only now, and... it's splendid! I like every single bit (or grain) of it...

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Comment posted by Jimmy Gekas on February 12, 2012 at 10:36 AM

Awesome! I love the metallic sheen this has to it. Really, really nice image.

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