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The house that never was....

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Posted by Jeremy Cram on July 19, 2006 at 12:49 PM
The house that never was....
From the Alvord....

Just playin with conversions and such and thought this had some interesting drama and maybe even a story in it. Thanks for looking.

20D, 1/13s, f16, iso 100, +2 Stop soft GND
Posted by John Lehmkuhl on July 19, 2006 at 1:11 PM
I like it a lot, I wish you were closer, it kind of gets lost in all the sage brush :razz:

Nice, dramatic conversion too...
Posted by Jeremy Cram on July 19, 2006 at 1:18 PM
I have some that are closer. What I did like about this is how small we really are in the grand scheme of nature. How the earth, eventually, will take everything back no matter how hard we try to stand our ground....It's not ours.
Thanks :smile:
Posted by Mark Hudon on July 19, 2006 at 1:26 PM
I agree with John about getting closer but I like the way the cloud fits into the frame. I think if you cropped the left, right and bottom the cloud would loose the nice framing. I'd like to be closer to the house but I think I'd live with it as it is.
Posted by Marc Adamus on July 19, 2006 at 1:52 PM
Feels very lonley from this distant perspective. Gives a vast sense of the barren surroundings and works well IMO.
Posted by Sean Watson on July 19, 2006 at 1:59 PM
Heh. Reminds me of the entry page for NPN these days. (Congrats for that, BTW.)

I think this works well in B&W; there are a wealth of textures here. You did a good job at hiding the car. I'm not sure how much the right adds. It's nice to have the edge of the cloud, but it might be a stronger image if you lost the blank part of the hill.

Nice work. Thanks for sharing.

Sean
Posted by Tomas Kaspar on July 19, 2006 at 6:16 PM
Works extremely well for me. I like it as is.
Posted by Josh Anderson on July 19, 2006 at 10:36 PM
Don't change a thing!
Posted by Rick Lundh on July 19, 2006 at 11:07 PM
Looks great. If I had a wish, it wouldn't be to be closer, but to at least seem more of the building. Still, you sure had killer clouds...and it tells a cool story for sure.
Posted by Mike Dawson on July 20, 2006 at 1:41 AM
Works as is for me