Down By the Old Mill Stream

Russ Devan from New Hanover, United States

This image is full of textures. I almost got a splinter in my hand just "feeling" all the lumber and the parallel lines. It has an interesting weathered look to it. The lines of the stacked lumber echo the lines created by the roof shingles, the platform, and the handrail. However, all those lines give me a bit of visual overload. I'm a simple guy, so I tend to gravitate toward simple images, but that's my personal preference. What would you think of cropping from the right edge to half way between the right-most vertical post and the window? I like the added sky, but I think it distracts the viewers eye from the real subject. You might want to keep the sky simple, but with that shade of gray-blue. I'd also bump up the saturation a bit to bring out the reddish tones of the stacked wood and adjust the curves and levels to give the entire image more contrast and more "snap". Ok, enough already. Still friends? You're probably wishing you should have shoved me into that lake. :-)

Sometimes, I can sit and stare at an image that I'm editing for quite some time and debate back and forth as to whether I should crop a certain way, emphasize or de-emphasize something, etc. That might explain why I'm lucky if I get one image processed each evening.

9 Jun 2008 4:40pm

bruno from les Ollières, France

Nice colors and composition!

9 Jun 2008 6:13pm