Gnarled tree limbs #3 by goodoleboy
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No AI - This artwork was created entirely by hand or with traditional digital tools.
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My return into high-key work, sans the original, captured 3/12/15, mid day, one block south of Katella Blvd in beautiful Los Alamitos, California.
Arrivederci.
Comments (6)
Very cool photo effects.
Great shot and postwork. I like such gnarled trees.
This is magnificent, Harry; almost like a pen & ink drawing, perfectly executed. Well done!
Very nice graphic effect & well-balanced composition...
Marvelous capture my friend... really MARVELOUS !!!
just can do a couple right now, but your last two are well worth it, Harry. I agree with Claude and Denise, and it's not just the fine postwork---creating an etching-like effect (with lots of white to make it like a pen and ink piece)---but the shot itself, with a fine composition. It has two heavy trunk/limbs with lots of space around them; all broken 'into' with all those leafy details in the leaves---incl the leaves of the trees in the background. In this spare treatment, the dots of those leaves take on a beauty of their own. Also---something I love, coming from the birthplace of the "Prairie School" of architecture (Frank Lloyd Wright and followers), the lines of the building behind the tree are sleek and modern, and they angle off perfectly from the two sides of the tree. In color that might not be as prominent. When you treat a photo this way, you'll of course lose some qualities. But when you treat it this way---and this, btw, is TRUE black and white, rather than the multi-gray that most of us call black and white---you gain a whole other perspective, because, in color, the balances of heavy with light, long with short, cloistered with open, etc, might be lost in all the hues. In a stark treatment like this, those balances come to the fore. A string quartet compared to a symphony: The 4 stringed instruments lose the massive color of the orchestra; but they bring out qualities that the full orchestra muddles. This is finely done, Harry, and a surprising transformation of the things we see in your gallery everyday. (And the tree itself looks like a beauty. That knot in the right-side branch looks like an eye!) A real pleasure to look at...so glad you did this.