Graham Smith Loc: Cambridgeshire UK

South Uist.

Your thoughts on this, please.

Graham.

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joehel2 Loc: Cherry Hill, NJ

Beautiful composition, you preserved the main focal point of the circular shoreline that moves counterclockwise with the dark arc of shoreline leading the eye. A closer crop making the boat the primary focal point would have made for a less successful composition; the focus on the boat is so clear and precise that it didn’t need any help. Thanks, Graham; I am a big fan of your work.

magnetoman Loc: Purbeck, Dorset, UK

Like Joe, I’m also a fan Graham - like most of us on UHH I guess. In this one, the water looks very special, almost frozen. Especially like the composition and the colour reflection in the still, undisturbed, water.

fergmark Loc: norwalk connecticut

This is another textbook example from your "understanding the finer points of composition". I believe it is almost necessary to go through the process of cloning out the boat, and toggling between the two, to observe how we are reacting to the photo. Without the boat, my eye flits here and there, not so much taking in the whole, but responding to the various elements as momentary distractions. Somewhat like the cacophony of sound, of a symphony before a performance. The boat acts as the conductor. We are not distracted from the music by his presence but he is a vital element. If one clones the boat into the nearby line of force, that positions effect is to hold our eye like a magnetic force, and we miss the performance by giving our attention to watching the conductor.

mffox Loc: Avon, CT

Beautifully done. A winner.

photophile Loc: Lakewood, Ohio, USA

Conveys feeling of it's being abandoned.

SteveR Loc: Michigan

This is a bid of an oddity, which is why I think you recorded it. Tide's out, leaving this funny color of foamy water in the bay and one boat. Just another bit of what it's like along the sea coast.

Uuglypher Loc: South Dakota (East River)

Hi, Graham,
As the viewer, I am a bit confused. My first impression is that I am standing at the level of high tide, but then the thought comes ...am I possibly standing considerably higher than that, but got my initial impression due to cropping of the image that falsely places me at high tide’s reach.
If I was initially correct, then that is one heck of a vertical difference between low tide, which has stranded the boat, and expected high tide. if, on the other hand, my view is from a significantly higher elevation, the the extent of tidal surge could be much less than I initially surmised... and, for me, anyway, the image’s impact is very different. so...that unresolved quandary consumes me more than do the other aspects of the image.

It is, therefore, interesting, but by no means in a class with the great majority of your other posted works.

Nu, it may be that for some unknown reason I am, today, simply indulging excessively in over-analysis?

As always, I’m eagerly looking forward to your next offering!

Dave

Nightski

I like it. Makes me wonder.