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Last leaves with square crop repost

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Posted by Rob Graham on March 7, 2008 at 11:41 PM
Last leaves with square crop repost
Going through the archives, I found this one from mid-November. I'm showing 2 crops, and I'm interested in which you prefer. I'm leaning towards the vertical because of its simplicity. Thanks for looking, and commenting.
Posted by Rob Graham on March 7, 2008 at 11:41 PM
Here is a horizontal crop.
Posted by Brad Mangas on March 8, 2008 at 2:40 AM
Hi Rob,
I looked these two over a few times. Initially I liked the image with the tree (I just seem to like trees).
But then I found myself always being drawn back to the trunk, which left out the other 75% of the image. The real beauty are the leaves against the wonderful puffy clouds. Simpler is a good way to describe it. More does not always mean better. Neat photo.

Brad
Posted by Tim Buchanan on March 8, 2008 at 8:45 AM
Nice clouds, Rob. Both are nice, but the one I find more interesting is the bottom one - it has more to look at!
Posted by Tom Kennon on March 8, 2008 at 8:48 AM
Rob, my vote is for the horizontal crop, like Tim said more interest there.
Posted by Dominic Rossetti on March 8, 2008 at 9:45 AM
Rob, I'd have to go with the horizontal, too. I do like simplicity, but the top picture seems a bit out of balance, or something. The horizontal kind of has two opposing sides that create an interesting symmetry.
Posted by Tim Mulholland on March 8, 2008 at 11:59 AM
Chiming in from up nort', I prefer the lower photo in some ways, but more prefer the upper photo for it's simplicity. When I first opened this page, I said "WOW!" when I saw the vertical photo, but I didn't at all have that response with the hz photo. What about cropping out the trunk of the tree on the hz photo, so that you get the simplicity of the vt photo in more of a square format???

Tim!
Posted by Merle Cook on March 8, 2008 at 12:06 PM
I tend to agree with Tim M from up north. A combination of the two with the trunk cropped out and showing more of the leaves than the top shot. IMHO
Posted by John Moore on March 8, 2008 at 12:57 PM
Another vote for the horizontal. Very nice, Rob.
Posted by Rob Graham on March 8, 2008 at 10:08 PM
Thanks for the input. Here is a square crop as suggested. Is it what you had in mind Tim M?
Posted by Wayne Rhodus on March 9, 2008 at 11:12 AM
The square crop holds the most interest for me. Could be another candidate for a puzzle company! Nice vision Rob.
Posted by David Bush on March 9, 2008 at 11:37 AM
The square crop looks the best to me, the leaves are more the center of focus rather than the clouds. Nice work Rob!
Posted by Tim Mulholland on March 9, 2008 at 8:20 PM
OK, I'm back! ;) Yes, I do like this more, in part because it feels like a poem or a koan or something like that - the image sort of tells me something or leads me to something, but then it doesn't. I feel this nice tension between wanting to name this image, as a way of describing it, of capturing it, and of not naming it because it doesn't seem like it can be captured...

I'm not trying to wax philosophic, but that's how this image touches me...

Tim!