Langdale Pikes

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A view to the Pikes from Wrynose Pass pass, Cumbria
Martin

Awais Yaqub

Beautiful !
thanks for sharing

bryanj87

I like this a lot. The composition, the tones and textures are all great!

schmoo

Martin,

I know you post relatively rarely but I always look forward to seeing your work. You have a way of making black and white say so much more than most shots I've seen in color.

Beautiful image

leaforte

Nice.

Michael Atkins

Stunning Shot!

NeilL

In many ways a very beautiful image - thanks for showing, Martin. It's because it contains so much that is good that it disappoints me somewhat. It seems to me that you were faced with certain choices and *maybe* - forgive my presumptuousness - lost something in trying to gain something else. I sympathise!

Obviously the intended subject is the central mass. You have revealed its dramatic qualities. Yet it is shelved back into a set with two other competing masses, all lined up in a flatish plane and locked together in stepwise fashion.

The result is that the real subject, although beautifully presented by your wonderful B&W work, is reduced to one in a series of three subjects. The nearer one, with its fringe of soft trees on top, which relatively should not have such power, even screens, and so upstages, the central one. To add insult to injury, the third mass dominates the central one in height, which is further subjugated by the large proportion of cloudy sky bearing down on it.

The power, and consequently the beauty, of the subject which you are sensitive to and want us to see are for me diminished in spite of your efforts to display them.

A great pleasure to look at this image, nevertheless. You have a great location for finding treasures like this.

martin-images

NeilL wrote:

In many ways a very beautiful image - thanks for showing, Martin. It's because it contains so much that is good that it disappoints me somewhat. It seems to me that you were faced with certain choices and *maybe* - forgive my presumptuousness - lost something in trying to gain something else. I sympathise!

Obviously the intended subject is the central mass. You have revealed its dramatic qualities. Yet it is shelved back into a set with two other competing masses, all lined up in a flatish plane and locked together in stepwise fashion.

The result is that the real subject, although beautifully presented by your wonderful B&W work, is reduced to one in a series of three subjects. The nearer one, with its fringe of soft trees on top, which relatively should not have such power, even screens, and so upstages, the central one. To add insult to injury, the third mass dominates the central one in height, which is further subjugated by the large proportion of cloudy sky bearing down on it.

The power, and consequently the beauty, of the subject which you are sensitive to and want us to see are for me diminished in spite of your efforts to display them.

A great pleasure to look at this image, nevertheless. You have a great location for finding treasures like this.

Pardon could you explain in more detail :-)

Thanks

Martin

ulrikft

I really like the image! Your BW-conversions are very nice!

(been reading up on your learning zone now! Lots to learn.. Thanks!)

gubbs

NeilL wrote:

In many ways a very beautiful image - thanks for showing, Martin. It's because it contains so much that is good that it disappoints me somewhat. It seems to me that you were faced with certain choices and *maybe* - forgive my presumptuousness - lost something in trying to gain something else. I sympathise!

Obviously the intended subject is the central mass. You have revealed its dramatic qualities. Yet it is shelved back into a set with two other competing masses, all lined up in a flatish plane and locked together in stepwise fashion.

The result is that the real subject, although beautifully presented by your wonderful B&W work, is reduced to one in a series of three subjects. The nearer one, with its fringe of soft trees on top, which relatively should not have such power, even screens, and so upstages, the central one. To add insult to injury, the third mass dominates the central one in height, which is further subjugated by the large proportion of cloudy sky bearing down on it.

The power, and consequently the beauty, of the subject which you are sensitive to and want us to see are for me diminished in spite of your efforts to display them.

A great pleasure to look at this image, nevertheless. You have a great location for finding treasures like this.

I'm always amazed by the differing opinions people have Different strokes! I struggle to find anything wrong with this picture... beautiful scene, gorgeous shot