Rachel,
First let me commend you on this interesting well conceived and executed snap. It's worthy of some measure of pride as this is the kind of image which has potential to develop well in post processing. Not only is it compositionally interesting, but there are, written into it, symbols we can relate to about the power of nature against the actions of man. Let me also commend you on the presentation with substantial white space all around, attribution to you and the title, properly placed as in a gallery. That respect for your work is important and it's good that you take the extra times to present your own work well like this. Want a quick comment, did you take a snap of the fence to the right! I'd love to see this stitched wider, (but of course you could predict that reaction from me, LOL)!
the foot prints in the sand in the other wise deserted beach with the the remainder of the nice quality of the undisturbed sand in the rest of the image which I find nice.
Hi Larry and Erik,
It's good of you both to comment as you do, from the heart. There's nothing wrong with your ideas, I just look at the picture from a vantage point of not what it might show but what it might mean.I feel differently about the image.
First it's an idea to consider, not framing this as the idealistic worn broken fence on a pristine beach. The picture is about disorder and that nature will unwind everything we put in pace, as it has done with the fence and will do with the footprints when the tide comes in. It would be interesting to enhance the footsteps and the detail of the fence. Voila! The picture is remarkable, at least to me.
And Rachel, yes you! Why on earth so you undersell yourself! This as good an image for you to work on in photoshop to rank and bring out features to your ideas and satisfaction. Just working on this one picture of a landscape will give you a lot of satisfaction. Cem, and Bart, BTW, know that! They take pains in composing pictures but then they are quite prepared to invest even more time and skill to process the image.
Thanks for sharing. I hope you work on it and post a somewhat large version.
Asher
BTW, What other images of this did you take that day?