Here are some recent photographs created in 2010 with the P45 and Hasselblad:
Alain,
You setup is remarkable and you don't need to buy another camera in your lifetime for landscape work! All the pictures have wonderful colors and delicate transitions. Your choice of location can hardly be improved upon.
My favorite here surprises me as this is not what I've had expected. For sure an open landscape with clouds would seduce me! However, in each of the two pictures I'd have gone for, the cloud is cut by the framing and that breaks the magic spell for me. It might be a personal quirk, and for sure it's no artistic law, but I like to be able to see the rise and fall of such a beautiful shape and form with it's delicate colors and shadings, as I enjoy the picture from one end of the landscape to the other. It's likely to be a limitation in perceiving I have, but that's what I live with.
Then we have this picture which I'd have thought, "Seen this before!" But no, this is different and in itself demands attention and revisiting.
Antelope Swirls, Arizona
This image gives me the sense of being complete. I have some satisfaction looking at it and appreciate a unity. I can start anywhere, explore it's curves and restart somewhere else and get another new experience. When one can do this with an image, it can last!
One tiny niggle is that the base of the picture, everything from the top level of the signature is not really needed and without that, the image appears to me, even more demanding of my repeated attention. With the crop, that sharp curved shelf becomes the strongest feature and balances the image in a new and forceful way. Theres now no ambiguity of brightness at the top or darkness at base.
(That possible crop is separate from the inevitable debate about where to put and how big to make one's so-needed signature.)
Thanks sharing some of the scenes of your work and world. It's impressive and a stimulus for my own.
Asher