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11 Aug 2024 09:23:13 EDT (-0400)
  Re: Dark, dank and dreary  
From: Thomas de Groot
Date: 18 May 2004 02:16:47
Message: <40a9aa4f@news.povray.org>
"Jim Charter" <jrc### [at] msncom> schreef in bericht
news:40a7b658$1@news.povray.org...
> Very strong image.  Really one of your best imo.  I would caution you to
>   be careful about adding animal life. It has some good possibilities to
> do so but to do so would take the picture down a narrative path when
> there is a lot to be appreciated about it in a design sense.  The
> ambivalent narrative meaning is not necessarily a bad thing.  And some
> of the things I already like about the picture include:  The low
> saturatioin of even monochrome suggesting either psychological dispair
> or ecological disaster, the subtly expressive effect of the water
> surface, the way the eye is teased by the minute information available
> along the horizon line, the strangeness of the non-bifurcated branch in
> the forground and how it grazes the the water surface.  I think much of
> the picture's appeal comes from its minimalism.  Perhaps that is a
> direction you could explore.

Putting things back in perspective! Excellent suggestion! I agree with that!

Thomas


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