awesome shot...glad you didn't go the typical route and compose it with more sky...the foreground makes it somehow intimidating..makes me feel like I need to hesitate approaching it..
Do I smell a ribbon? Excellent. 10 edited: I cannot tell a lie, I actually scored this a 9. I must have gone back and changed it for some reason I no longer remember. But it is a wonderful image of decrepitude. The house seems to rise up organically from the dirt below it. The straight-on angle of the house makes it seem flat, robs the whole picture of depth, which actually serves to emphasize your subject more, and also create a mood of morbidity.
The decision to include all the bland and muddy foreground was inspired; I'd have probably unthinkingly cropped it out and lost all the drama that you have achieved. Presumably there's a lot of dodge & burn here, as well as some creative use of USM ... in which case this is a very fine (and rare) example of when heavy post-processing is justifiable. Nice work! 8.
would like to see this composed off center. This way it just looks too square to my eye. Nice textures and details though and I think the sepia works well here.
There is something in the symmetry that makes this photo work. The perspective you chose makes the crib look like it is teetering on a mountain top. It took a second look to give it the score it deserved.
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