Fortnightly Challenge -- July 11 thru July 24 -- Topic: Leading Lines

[Phrasikleia]

First...where was your photo taken. It looks like a beautiful place. I really like the water and the boardwalk. The water is perfect and the walk leads my mind up the wonderful path. I'm not sure about the upper third of the shot. It's almost like I want to see the water and boardwalk from a higher vantage point. I stared at the shot for a while imagining walking up the path which I think is exactly the effect you would want this photo to have. Well done.

That's Vintgar Gorge in the Julian Alps of Slovenia. It would be fun to shoot from a higher vantage point, but that's quite impossible. It's a narrow, treacherous gorge, accessible only by the 100-year-old footbridges secured to its walls. Actually, taking photos there at all is rather tricky. It's very difficult to find a good spot on the bridges where a tripod won't completely block the path. I had a lot of people wearing backpacks squeezing past my tripod to get through. One of them caused my favorite pair of sunglasses to plunge into the river. That was unfortunate, but at least it wasn't the camera!

I like how the leading lines here take us right in to your subject. All of that sky isn't doing anything for the photo, though. You could crop in quite a bit on the top and right and thereby get us a lot "closer" to your subject (and get him that much further from the center of the frame).

 

[deep diver]

Nice colors. I think we're rotated to the right a bit. I'm hypersensitive to rotation because my wife makes fun of me for all my photos being rotated to the right.

Edit: You know, I looked at it again and maybe it isn't. The white piping almost seems equidistant to the edge. Maybe there's a bit of an optical illusion because of the spiral?

I know what you are saying. It looked the same to me until I turned on the grid lines in PSE.

The guard chair and the support structure for the slide are parallel as are the fence and the line of the pool deck. Otherwise there are converging lines, the spiral, and the distorted reflected lines so the eye is definitely being fooled.

I also rotate my shots (sometimes a lot and especially vertical shots). This one is one of the few that was almost perfect from the beginning.

 

[CK Williams]

Down the tracks

 

[Phrasikleia]

One more, just for fun: my parents exploring their new ranch...