"A window is an opening in an otherwise solid and opaque surface through which light and, sometimes, air can pass."
-Wikipedia
"As in from a building" is a poorly worded simile to clarify what is meant by using a window to frame a subject. It provides an example - not a requirement.
Addressing a few comments:
Yes the title was on the defensive. With apologies to those who were critical of it or felt insulted by it, I have to wonder how many DNMC comments I would have received without it since photo details aren't visible during voting. Damned if I do, damned if I don't. As presented, only one commenter felt it was a stretch. I feel I made a good, if unconventional decision.
Another commenter wanted more balance between the blue sky and the green valley, but I would counter that increasing the size of the sky decreases the perceptual size of the mountain. Landscape Photography 101 teaches you that big sky = small mountain, and it's exceedingly rare that you want mountains to look small. I stand by this decision as well.
This is indeed at Garden of the Gods, at the Siamese Twins formation. I camped out for sunrise at the location, only to be subjected to cloud cover just when the light would have been that perfect soft golden tone. I finally got fed up and left to run an errand in town - the whole reason for the trip to the Springs area in the first place. When I was finished, I looked up and realized the clouds had passed. It was closer to noon than to sunrise, but that was better than nothing and nothing beats a blue Colorado sky. Thanks to everyone who was flexible enough to think outside the box on this one!
Statistics
Place: 36 out of 180 Avg (all users): 6.1111 Avg (commenters): 6.8000 Avg (participants): 5.6452 Avg (non-participants): 6.3836 Views since voting: 1960 Views during voting: 414 Votes: 252 Comments: 37 Favorites: 3 (view)
First Impression Very Nice shot.
Composition: Very good composition.
Subject: I really like the subject. Nice take on the challenge.
Technical (Colour and light):
The color and lighting in the front is perfect, but needs to be bumped little bit in the backgroud.
Improvement: Color saturation in the background, contrast and lighting. Some voters on DPC are very strict about meeting the challenge. Tha challenge said Window like a building window, just wondering that may be the this didn't finish higher.
Summary: Little bit more PP, try to please majority of voters by meeting the challenge criteria.
Over all very nice image. Congrates on your Personal Best.
I had a bit Gripe on last week as to why somewone would give me only 1 point for a photo, and to find 3 people gave you 1 point is amazing - who are these people.
They must be jealous is the only thin I can think of.
Your picture is a Beltta, well done
A lot of folks were put off by the anti-DNMC title, others just decided it was DNMC despite it. Whatever - even ribbon winners get 1's!
I had a bit Gripe on last week as to why somewone would give me only 1 point for a photo, and to find 3 people gave you 1 point is amazing - who are these people.
They must be jealous is the only thin I can think of.
Your picture is a Beltta, well done
Nice find on the rock window, horrible title though, hate titles that "explain the photo", trust me, voters are not stupid in general and they´ll figure it out.
Deduction for excessive title... (just kidding!) Nice, unique approach to the challenge. Foreground rocks may be just a tad bright, drawing away a bit from the apparent subject of the mountain.
Boy I hope this does well, I wanted to do a naturally framed entry but was worried about the whole DNMC thing. Hope you are not getting that because this is great. Good luck!
ha, I love how DPC has forced us to start using the title to explain ourselves. Don't worry, I'm not going to knock you. nice shot. The lower right looks a little harsh or saturated. Some masking may have been nice there. The red and blue contrast well. 8
Beautiful shot. You Come upon these opportunities by chance and take advantage of them through experience.... Did you have a polarizer... who knows... if you did not and you had employed one the photo would have popped and given you a 9 or 10. Great eye. 8
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