Stone steps at the Heian Shrine garden in Kyoto, Japan. I took a two-week trip to Japan with my mom in the beginning of August. Each photo I took reminds me of the great times we had.
1. Converted from RAW.
2. Converted to black and white using Channel Mixer.
3. Resized then used Smart Sharpen.
No spot editing or cropping.
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this is nice; very reminiscent of lost in translation. not sure about the b&W though, and also the tops of the stepping stones / trunks appear a bit overblown. personally, i think because of the film relation, the lack of a human element is more obvious than it would normally be, and consequently it feels as if something is missing... the crop is also a bit biased to one side, and it feels a tad unbalanced. likeable nonetheless. 7.
Somehow, I think you might have made more of the similarities between the lily pads and the stones. Those variations on a theme of circles might an add an element that I think is missing otherwise - in that this, whilst well toned, quite nicely composed (I have reservations about the left-hand stone) depends purely on those stones for its impact, and that is maybe not enough alone?
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