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Uploaded: 04/02/13 9:10 AM GMT
Strange
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Somehow right, yet strangely wrong. Second on what I now consider to be my quark set. It remains to be seen if I can get all the flavours, but I shall try. I rather like this one, in that it makes the viewer pause when you look at the image, but it lacks impact. Not perfect,rather too cluttered and indistinct in places. 5/10. Comments, critiques, marks and remarks welcome.

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::LynEve
04/03/13 7:30 AM GMT
Standing on my head allows this image to make more 'sense' to me but takes away the novelty of viewing a reflection in the sky and the mystery that invokes.
Flipping the image gives a better balance (in my eyes at least)and I like seeing the reflected trees without them being visible above.
This way up I would go along with 5/10 with an extra 1 for novelty value but t'other way up I would give it 6.
So it's six of one and half a dozen of the other, on the face of it, but I would likely mark it higher for causing me to pause and reflect.
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.mesmerized
04/03/13 6:11 PM GMT
I think you've short-changing yourself, Chris...while it may lack impact it has alot of mystique, ambience, and does indeed make the viewer pause to consider what they are viewing...and for those who enjoy a little of the abstract or impressionism, it also has merit...the black and white an added bonus as well...I'm with Lyn, 6/10.
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.Lightpainter
04/07/13 7:14 PM GMT
It might be interesting to crop away the bottom portion of the image so the viewer has to think even harder about what he is seeing.
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.FlimBB
05/07/13 7:13 PM GMT
Hi Chris. The loss of impact rectifies quite a bit when viewed full screen because of the "textured" look from the former water - now sky. I think it would be even more interesting if you replaced the scene being reflected with a morph of the actual reflected image (if that makes sense). I do love the concept here and do like this one a lot.
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