First post (St Michael's Mount)

[Hindey]

Hi,
Taken with my old Sony CyberShot DSC-P31. I did the B&W conversion and cropping in Photoshop CS. It was taken in June/July on St Michael's Mount, Cornwall, UK and I just thought it was an interesting bit of structure.



Don't hold back, I can take it! Although there is zero chance of me repeating the shot for the forseeable future.

Cheers,
Chris

[PuckJunkey]

Actually I like this alot. It's one of those compositions that, because of the way you've carefully framed things, and because of the contrast brought out by the B&W (guessing it works much better this way than in color), you have one of those neat perspective illusions. When I first looked at it my eye caught the details on the tower and I thought I was looking at something huge (very tall)... but then you come back to earth and see that it's all together something different.

I like the blend of architecture, landscape and moodiness. Good job.

[Trevor Ash]

I agree with you, it is an interesting piece of structure. You've exposed it very well. I spent some time looking at the photo trying to get a sense of scale. It looks to be pretty large.

[Hindey]

Thanks for the comments

In the dark recess where the round turret meets the chimney, you can make out a doorway. Hopefully that'd give some sense of scale. Do you think a person in the image would have given a better sense of scale? Or would it have disturbed the image?

Cheers,
Chris

[Trevor Ash]

I avoided suggesting that a person would have made the photo different on purpose. Mostly because I don't really know myself because it just depends on the person, where, what they're doing, etc.

I think for this photo what you have works well. It kept my attention at least while I tried to determine scale and that can't be all bad.