Thomas de Groot wrote:
> "Jim Charter" <jrc### [at] msncom> schreef in bericht
> news:42c08b15@news.povray.org...
> 
>>Stephen McAvoy wrote:
>>
>>>On Sun, 26 Jun 2005 03:22:36 -0400, Jim Charter <jrc### [at] msncom>
>>>wrote:
>>>
>>>
>>
>>>The path doesn't fit the back/mid ground. I can't put my finger on it

>>>seem mismatched with respect to the path, I think.
>>
>>Now that one I didn't quite expect.  But in a way you are pointing to
>>the thing that was bothering me too, but I saw it in terms of the
>>coloring.  This coloring was the first solution I was halfway happy
>>with, ie the red brick road way and the light facing, but I wasn't sure
>>it it would sell.
>>
> 
> Hmm... I wonder if one of the causes of this is not the exact juxtaposition
> of the left topiary and the branching of the path/staircase. This breaks the
> perspective view at a crucial point (for the eyes).
> 
The whole thing came about because I needed to do something with the far 
side of the pond.  I felt there needed to be some sort of wall or riser 
there, just behind that featured topiary, precisely to give the eye a 
reference point and to help profile the point where the topiary is 
supported. Having a hill just recede away into the background along with 
the converging lines of the surrounding walkway seemed unsatisfying. 
Once I put the riser there, the need to have it extend into the hill, 
somehow, was inevitable.  I kind of liked the stairs sweeping down and 
ending at the all important toe touch.  But in the general case it is 
well known that such convergences of lines in a picture are bad 
compositionally. precisely because they interrupt the sense of 
overlapping perspective.  The least I can do is rotate the stairs around 
the pond to the right some more or change the camera angle.  Actually, 
in my mind the wall was higher, but I wanted that sort of golf links 
look too, with fixtures extending into the distance on a rolling green. 
  Maybe I want too much



> 
>>Somehow this idea of a fantasy garden of shoes seems like some sort of
>>logical progression from the hundreds of paintings I used to do of shoes
>>propped up on their toes:
>>http://www21.brinkster.com/jrcsurvey/paintings/selectedmenu.html
> 
> That is very good work, Jim. I believe that this may get people interested
> in shoes you know! Quintessential, really.
> 
> 
Thankyou.  I believe there is a *lot* of latency involved with shoes. 
If you look closely you may notice that I showed you the "selected" 
menu.  Inquiring minds may wonder what would be on the plain vanilla menu ;)

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