This location = Anglesey, North Wales,U.K., Kodak Infra Red,

Nice composition and light. GJ

A most beautiful b&w work , Very good composition

Like J.S. best photos!

Very, very good! Great composition and light.

great photos in this folder. outstanding lines and composition. IR gives great mood as well.

This is a great example of why film RULES in the black and white realm. I love DSLR's, but I've never seen a digital photo that captures this kind of mood. It's always some blah-looking gray. This TRULY IS a BLACK and WHITE photo. Digital darkroom-ers take note.

Brilliant location and composition, by the way!

Time destroys everything. This is the reality we feel. Here the IR light makes the scene unreal. Deep mood does not emerge. This is a false picture.

Great composition. Consistent elements of time, aging, weathering. Maybe an ineffective human attempt to stop inevitable erosion of landscape with old, rustic, dilapidated fence. Quietly highlighted cross, erected as permanently as possible on an ancient rock. Maybe not 'technically proper' with blown out highlights, but that doesn't affect me in the least. The IR contrast and radical tonal scale add to the time, aging and weathering. Very appropriate. I can see how this scene could have been approached with many different choices, but I very much appreciate this artist's approach. I think a less radical approach could have been beautiful as well, but I suspect I would still end up liking this one more. I really like this picture. Thanks for sharing.

Lovely composition, I enjoy the play of tones through out the image. I also like the cross just being slightly off center but I feel some tension when looking towards the lower left portion of the image. I can't explain it almost like the image is pulling too much to one side, or falls off. Sorry that I can not pinpoint what exactly I am feeling. But never-the-less a fantastic image. Curious about what equipment was used, as well as film format?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BoXsxYf2UMA Does the "Fence" starts and ends in the same place? Perhaps we can close this circle...

I love the juxtaposition of despair and hope, the decay in the foreground against a backdrop of resurrection. The fence slats look like the bones of humanity leading up to Golgotha. Very powerful. If I saw this image in a Christian book store, I would buy it. Would also make a great album cover.

Great shot, like the sharpness of the B&W. Speaks volumes of times gone by.

A striking, expertly done image. I have no qualms with manipulating images to this degree as long as they're labeled that way. It's fair to say that any infrared image is in essence, manipulated. It's not an accurate representation of the scene or the world in general. But Gary has created something that most certainly would have had less appeal without this treatment, though I do have more respect for images that don't rely quite so heavily on special effects. Again, the end product is very eye-catching and valid if labeled and infrared or a manipulated image.

WOWS - amazing picture.

fabulous image!! well done!

Viewing images of photographs on computer monitors needn't be antiaesthetic. Besides, there is the sharing of learning: about format, process, product, media and study itself. This member's work is only known to me now by this image and his contributions to Photonet. The example this print sets in terms of process shows craft skills true to Purist photography. How many photographers take pains with filters before lenses and then the type of film and print process? His subject knowledge and treatment seen here set a high aesthetic despite the limiting pixelation. As the screen tilts, contrast shifts so contrast is beyond criticism. The dark burn from hazy daylight accentuates both hopeful and hopeless affect. Alienation and pathos inhabit the shot now the monument has been named. It leaves an idea that the truest loves are sometimes lost, largely inhibited AND prohibited. Is this image a study, masterpiece, relic? What decides?

Gary, you made a great job; congratulations! Best regards, Ramon.