Dreams by Rina H

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I like the vivid colour the composition and the simplicity of this photograph.
I really really really want to see the horizon though. I'm not sure if this is a bad thing or not.
...Yes I think the camera needed to be a fraction higher to give extra depth in the sky low down.

Very simple, almost minimal. It's an interesting juxtaposition between man-made & nature. The shadow is interesting. But, without a real subject there seems to be a void as if something is missing from the frame

The subject is the photograph.

I think is a great image, simple yet very interesting and indeed the subject is there, the man made walls, the light shade and clouded and well contrasted sky is the real subject here, I also find this image well balanced lighting and composition wise along with very fine details, even the textures of the wall work comes in amazing sharpness.

Yellow and blue are high-contrast colors were, used fort example, with great effects by the Fauvist, as in this painting of London Bridge or this of the Parliament (both by André Derain).
Rina is therefor in known territory, when composing the colors of her "Dreams". Does it work ? I'm not sure. At least my immediate reaction was to concentrate on the clouds, wondering how cirius, cumulus clouds and the traces of a plane passing by and disappeared in the horizon, might convey a feeling or even a dream.
I'm left with a square (two dimensions) and a three sided prism (three dimensions) which are surely not without abstract visual interest.

Pure light and form--who could ask for more?

Here's another by the same artist:

http://photo.net/photodb/photo?photo_id=14158572

Wow, Rina! Where you been all our lives?

--Lannie

"Pure light and form"

And DIRT in the corner. Don't forget the dirt. Pure? Hardly. All we have to do is look at the photo while we're fantasizing.

"Pure light and form" in this context means "nothing but light and form"--hardly a putdown, nor an explicaton of the concept of "purity."

--Lannie