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The Little Red Lighthouse.. (Original Post) sir pball Sep 2014 OP
Good work! elleng Sep 2014 #1
These are wonderful! CaliforniaPeggy Sep 2014 #2
I assume you were playing with these for the contest? Curmudgeoness Sep 2014 #3
No, I don't usually pay more than passing mind to the contest. sir pball Sep 2014 #4
Good deal. I look forward to seeing the better ones. nt Curmudgeoness Sep 2014 #5
The simplicity does make it hard, though. sir pball Sep 2014 #6
I can't help you....it is your decision. Curmudgeoness Sep 2014 #9
Here's my tentative idea. sir pball Sep 2014 #7
I would be very disappointed Mira Sep 2014 #8

CaliforniaPeggy

(149,781 posts)
2. These are wonderful!
Mon Sep 1, 2014, 09:49 PM
Sep 2014

All of them.

My favorites are the first and last. The first for the angle and the last for the juxtaposition of the lighthouse and the bridge.

Yes, do check out our monthly contest. The theme is Lines, and you have some superb examples here.

Curmudgeoness

(18,219 posts)
3. I assume you were playing with these for the contest?
Mon Sep 1, 2014, 09:55 PM
Sep 2014

My favorite is the bridge spanning the water. But the other two have very interesting perspectives.

sir pball

(4,766 posts)
4. No, I don't usually pay more than passing mind to the contest.
Mon Sep 1, 2014, 10:06 PM
Sep 2014

Though if I have a submission I'm always in. I'll have to check now

Edit, I did know lines were the theme (I thought that was last month, though) - and the first thing I thought was "I have footing access to the GWB, piece of cake!" Time to submit, though I have even better in the archives..

sir pball

(4,766 posts)
6. The simplicity does make it hard, though.
Mon Sep 1, 2014, 10:18 PM
Sep 2014

Do I use #2 here, with the lines gracefully arching away? The unpublished one of the abutment, with two perpendicular yet canted lines slashing the sky from sight? #3 here, with the straight, towering column overwhelming the little curved house? The shot directly under one tower, with the deck evenly splitting the frame?

Decisions, decisions...it would help if I didn't suffer from the Dunning-Kruger effect in my photography

Curmudgeoness

(18,219 posts)
9. I can't help you....it is your decision.
Tue Sep 2, 2014, 07:15 PM
Sep 2014

One of the reasons that I like #2 best in the set you posted was because #1 and #3 aren't "pretty" with all the rust on the girders. But that is just me---I was bothered by that, but I am obsessive about some things, like "perfection" without flaws---and that isn't real. I also felt that 1 and 3 were "too busy"....just too much chaos for me. But I know that some people prefer them for the interest that all the lines creates.

Don't listen to my ranting. We all have an eye for different things. Good luck finding just the right one. Mine will probably be boring.

sir pball

(4,766 posts)
7. Here's my tentative idea.
Mon Sep 1, 2014, 10:36 PM
Sep 2014

The bridge from the center of the park underneath: I was surrounded by families grilling burgers and dogs, on the breezy salty riverfrint, the perfect American scene; then you turn around and the sky itself is cut apart by the towering, well, tower, and the deck slashing across the blue to the unnatural, angular, grey concrete abutment standing out from the organic forest:

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