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A Silent Dialogue
A restrained coastal tableau built around stillness and separation. The seated figure is placed slightly right of centre, turned away from the viewer, which shifts emphasis from identity to gesture and mood. The backpack anchors the narrative as travel or pause, while its bulk balances the composition against the open sand. The scene is organised in three calm bands—foreground ripples of sand, a mid-ground strip of beach, and the softly textured sea beyond. This horizontal structure stabilises the frame and amplifies the contemplative register. A lone pigeon, small but sharply legible, introduces a secondary point of attention and a faint counter-rhythm to the figure’s inward focus. Colour is deliberately subdued:…
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An Early Landscape Photography Attempts
The frame centres on a vivid orange butterfly, held in partial profile with its wings closed, set against a dense tangle of grasses and low scrub. The subject’s saturated colour provides an immediate point of emphasis, while the surrounding vegetation introduces a complex lattice of lines that both animates and competes with the focal point. A pale limestone rock occupies the right side as a strong compositional counterweight. Its softly lit surface and visible fissures add tactile interest and a clear tonal anchor, separating the butterfly’s warm hue from the busier greens and ochres behind. The diagonal stems and overlapping blades create a natural, slightly chaotic geometry that conveys a…
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Parallels & Diagonals
This blue-hour cityscape hinges on strong linear perspective: the elevated bridge on the right and the riverbanks on the left converge toward a distant vanishing point, pulling the eye cleanly through the frame. Warm street and architectural lighting contrasts with the cooling sky, creating a balanced teal–amber palette that suits twilight urban travel imagery. Reflections are the picture’s quiet engine. The river reads as a central corridor of light, with elongated highlights from lamps and windows forming a measured vertical rhythm that steadies the scene. Moored boats along the right bank add human scale and texture, preventing the infrastructure from becoming purely monumental. The exposure favours atmosphere over clinical sharpness;…
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My camera’s early test shots
Pictures with no specific “intent”. Just went to the docks and clicked around, to get an early feel of how does the camera work. Results: mixed feelings.
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A new camera and the quest for the missed information
Convinced by the hype raised by the review of a well known camera review website I purchased a bridge camera , just to be surprised and disappointed at the same time. The surprise came out when I discovered that the this camera comes – as standard – with a lens hood, does mount filters and has a remote trigger socket. None of these very important issues were addressed in the review I went through seeking advice and that, as always, focused on image quality, body and functionality, sensor performance etc. etc. Another “non significant” issue has been casually set apart by this review: the 12Mpixel resolution on such a tiny…
