Influences

Morris, the inclusion of the moon in your image makes for a stunning tension to me, which is even more emphasized by the contrast between the warmer and darker tones in the foreground and the cooler and brighter ones of the moon. Furthermore I experience a kind of gravitation, which symbolizes for me the rather close relationship bewteen the moon and the earth. Interesting work in my opinion.

Peter

Beautiful image. You must have been in the perfect place and time for this one. Very compelling

Sweet image Morris!!!!

This is beautiful, Morris. Where was it taken?

- Dan

Everything is in the right place here Morris. Beautiful image but I have to ask...... What exactly is the is the Golden Ratio? This looks like a 4X5 or 6X7 aspect ratio but I think you mean something different. I am not familiar with the term in photo terms.

Love it Morris. The moon looks tack sharp with great detail!

Morris, golden ratio or not I like the beautiful golden color on the flatiron rock formation and the sense of scale provided by the evergreen trees. I also like the framing of the moon in the image. To be honest though I'm not too excited about the color of the sky. To my eyes it feels too much on the grey side. This may be due to the warm white balance and / or the natural lighting (due to hazy skies???) - I'm not sure though. As I scroll down I also like a slight crop just above the rock formation.

morris, the golden light in your image is lovely! within the image there are various areas that relate to each other and which could be included in golden ratio calculations ... these are good things to have in our toolkit when making images.

Looks golden to me. Simple composition and perfectly controlled light works very well together here.

Beautiful light and wonderful capture. I could see cropping a little of the negative space from the top. Sweet work Morris

Thanks everyone.
Dan, I took this from the north side of the Flatirons up one of the trails that go up from Baseline past Chautauqua.

Eva, there is too much information for me to respond here about the Golden Ratio, so I would just suggest you Google it and you will have more to read than you probably really would want to. Even Wikipedia has a ton of info about it. It's just so cool. It applies to all of the natural world around us and is based on a ratio of 1:1.618.

Bryan, the warm balance is about right I think, but it was hazy indeed which affected the sky's color. It was a warm light this morning and there just was not much blue in the sky. And, you might be right about a crop off of the top. I had cropped in from the left to eliminate some unwanted space because I was too far away to get the comp with my 300mm, and to keep the rectangle of the outside frame in proportion to the ratio I probably need to crop the same amount from the top.

Morris, I agree that the white balance appears to be correct based on the color in the rock formation and the early morning light. I probably should have clarified that. The grey appearance in the sky must be due to the haziness that you mentioned. Definitely a beautiful image.

what a great shot! it feels like the trees are pushing up against the rock, and the rock is trying to catch the moon!

This looks fantastic to me! Awesome light and comp....this is wonderful work, Morris.

Nick Bristol
Lone Rock, WI

I have to be honest and say I would have been tempted to move that moon a little (to wherever I wanted it). Although it certain works very well where it was.