Thanks for the comments everyone.
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Originally Posted by Nineties Flava
There's some stunning landscape photos here, this one in particular:
It truly looks like a painting. The compositions in general were the best I've seen from you, great work. |
That is probably my favorite landscape shot of all the ones I've ever taken. I had just finished watching a documentary on Celtic religious practices that went on about the role of running water as a central feature of the groves they practiced their rituals in. That day I tried to take some photos that captured the spiritual aspect of nature and water. That is actually a running subtext to the thread as a whole - not just that particular photo. The idea was to show the eternal power of nature forcing itself through the more temporary creations of man, and also the idea that the built environment is just the temporary physical residue of the social history that has taken place on a particular piece of land, the land itself endures regardless of the passage of events that take place over it.
The original working title of the thread was Prairie School and Water Spirits but eventually I decided that was too pretentious.
I think it is important to have some stuff in your head while you are walking around taking pictures. Even if you personal narrative isn't obvious to others who are looking at your photos, you end up with better photos as a result.
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