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Emily,

I don't feel compelled to comment on the gallery very often but your image
grabbed me.

The solidity of the straight line formed by the train works nicely with it's
reflection on the water which both gives it more mass and yet somehow
diminishes its weight as well. Perhaps by smearing it across the water?

I don't think it would have worked as well if the reflections had gone all
the way from the bottom of the image to the train. Praise the photogods for
that weird bit of wind chop which seems to die out on the right side of the
image, eh? Why would it do that? Was the wind traveling and dying from left
to right? Still water runs deeper. Was it a shallow area? It seems thicker
on the left which means more wind or less depth there?

It would have been too solid without that bit of chop and would have felt
like a failed compositional attempt at thirds. The wind chop gives a little
bit of weight and connects the water tonally with the stone above. Without
it the train would have felt to me like it was ready to slide down off the
page. Try it for yourself with the stamp tool.

The orange cars contrast nicely with the green foilage and their placement
suggest perhaps a secret code. Mystery abounds! Wouldn't it make a great
plot in a murder mystery novel? The caboose murder finally solved by the
clever detective that percieves the morse code of the cars as they pass by.

The straight line of the train works so well in counterpoint to the slightly
right rising road and the sinking left fault lines in the rock below it.
Above the road the growth of bush suggests sinking right faultlines in the
decidedly darker formation. (Weathering? Carbon dioxide staining from the
exhaust of passing vehicles? I am going to find the answer to that question
myself.)
On closer inspection, the bushes on the bottom slope down to the right while
on the right they follow the faults. As I look at it my head follows the
lines up and down and side to side. Imagine Stevie Wonder.

You can't "see" an image like this. You can only respond at the time and
hopefully recognize it in the edit. This, to me, is how real photographers
function.

Congratulations, Auntie Em. This is wonderful.
Can I get a higher res copy to use as my computers desktop?

My visa# is 493873209873
Expiry  14-69
Secret code 023

R

P.S. Even though you state that you were so impressed with the rivers width,
isn't is wonderful that you didn't make it a photo about how wide the stupid
river was?

P.P.S. Thank you SO MUCH for not making me have to deal with your big fat
annoying watermark right smack dab in the middle of the fucking image. I
never would have spent so much time with it if you had and would not have
fallen in love with it.

P.P.P.S.  Kisshug kisshug.

P.P.P.P.S. I'm serious about the desktop image. Don't make me come over
there.




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