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I thank you for taking the time to comment :)

The horizon is level - maybe the higher ground on the left makes it look off. I deliberately left space on th right - I don't like to fill wide shots with detail, I think you need to let them breathe! Allowa the eye to roam freely around the scene.

That's my reasoning, right or wrong :)

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spolky

 
spolky said:
The horizon is level - maybe the higher ground on the left makes it
look off. I deliberately left space on th right - I don't like to
fill wide shots with detail, I think you need to let them breathe!
Allowa the eye to roam freely around the scene.

That's my reasoning, right or wrong :)
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I think it's great that you have thought it through and cropped to your taste...can't argue with that. I just found the tree on the far right a little distracting...(but one could also say it anchors that side)....YMMV...:-)
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Don
http://www.pbase.com/dond
 


Sharing the same runway edge line as this Japanese Zero, the 200mph aircraft had very quickly & suddenly appeared from within the wall of thick explosion smoke, induced by multiple large, 200-foot tall napalm type gasoline explosions to my immediate side. The high-pitched sound of this oncoming and aggressive phantom Zero was beyond eerie, but to experience its over-torqued, high spun, in-my-face propeller blades eating-up the heavy air, and passing within a mere three or four feet directly over my head - was horrendous. And the instantaneous explosion, which the topped-out aircraft engine created at the moment of overtaking my body - was insane. A sonic boom pierced my frozen mind; though, I had continued to stand tall.

For a brief moment in my own reality, upon experiencing the overly close, fast overflying aircraft of a time long past, my instinct, having now been peppered with heavy explosions, questioned if I were still physically alive; or the pure whiteness that I now faced was the blanket of my death. I then instantly spun around to capture the departing Reaper - but it was long gone.

Through the warbird aircraft's convex yellow spinner (nose cone), we can see the distorted one and a half foot wide runway edge line which the aggressive attacker shared with me as it hugged the ground. At the peak of the shared line, there in the center of the spinner, we can also easily see my distorted silhouette still standing tall - though the image we now look at could have just as easily been my last.

Of all my images made to date, this particular one will land itself as being permanently the most memorable. Though it's not my prettiest image, it's the most intriguing one of me & my still attached reflection. At the time, it was perhaps the quickest, but most difficult, decision I've yet had to make: to determine if the aircraft will indeed clear me, that I stand firm & make the image - or that I literally dive with my camera and monopod to the ground.

marc
 
The Canadian Rocky Mountains around Lake Louise and Victoria Glacier [all in Banff National Park] reflected in the windows of The Fairmont Chateau Lake Louise.



Nikon D200
18-200 mm
f/8
1/100
 
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