Estuary at Christmas (taken with HTC 8x phone)

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December 25th... Merry Christmas from Seaside where there's no snow... no rain... no cold... what gives?

[Chris]

That's pretty, it looks warmer there than here.

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It hit 50 F today, Chris. Hope you had a nice Christmas.

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That looks wide open and untouched. The wide aspect ratio suits this landscape view.

that man-made lookout kinda mimics nature's version in the distant background...after enjoying the true blue pristine look of the landscape that wooden thing on the left juts into the pic quite aggressively. Did you want to object to it being there with this photo? I guess that's why the Sierra Club and all the others do a good thing to protect the hinterland from man's mucking things up. It's nigh-on impossible to totally avoid power-lines when shooting landscapes now. Unless you're willing to slug your way well off roads.
BTW that estuary reminds of Andreas Gursky's photo Rhine II

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Ha! I had to look that so-called masterpiece up. Uh... I see a faint resemblance. Think anyone will give me a couple of thousand for the rights? LOL

I saw the board walk lookout and yes... it bothered me. I don't recall my reasons for deciding to include it.

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Dec 27, 2013 6:45:46 GMT @jamesd said:

Ha! I had to look that so-called masterpiece up. Uh... I see a faint resemblance. Think anyone will give me a couple of hours and for the rights? LOL

I saw the board walk lookout and yes... it bothered me. I don't recall my reasons for deciding to include it.

a couple hours for the rights... yeah really eh?

" it bothered me. I don't recall my reasons for deciding to include it."
I thought that you were purposely calling attention to it... like a protest sort of.

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I HATE the self-correct on my danged iPad! Grrrrr... I corrected it to read: couple of THOUSAND... not hours! Sheesh.

I seldom think as deeply as you, Charlie, when I compose an image. It's almost always a gut reaction to what I'm seeing. I wish I were more cerebral in my picture-taking but I am what I am, eh?! LOL

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Dec 27, 2013 15:16:09 GMT @jamesd said:

I HATE the self-correct on my danged iPad! Grrrrr... I corrected it to read: couple of THOUSAND... not hours! Sheesh.

I seldom think as deeply as you, Charlie, when I compose an image. It's almost always a gut reaction to what I'm seeing. I wish I were more cerebral in my picture-taking but I am what I am, eh?! LOL

I can shoot on purely gut instinct but I'd want to think about it first.

about the man-made lookout...

it could just as easily suggest that man appreciates nature and can do so from a distance. The pic could suggest a respect of nature position...
Doesn't it seem that lots of photographers decline to say what their photos are about, preferring to let the viewer make up their own mind about what they are looking at? Personally I think that a caption, even a simple one helps to frame a photo in one's consideration of it and can point us to what the photographer wants us to see in the photo. Just like a real frame around a print can call attention to a colour or what have you.

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I agree regarding a caption being a help. I think it also helps if you establish the setting for the image. Where were you? Why were you there? What were the conditions? Or at least something of that nature.

I'm still struggling with the idea of manipulating the image. I struggle with overly-manipulated images, Charlie. Ridiculously blue skies.... overly sharpened subjects... greens that are almost yellow... red that look too purple... to my eye this is more about playing with software than participating in photography (but that is my personal hangup and I admit to it). A little sharpening... a little brightening... a little color correction and some cropping but only if absolutely necessary. That's it for me.

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Dec 28, 2013 0:29:55 GMT @jamesd said:

I agree regarding a caption being a help. I think it also helps if you establish the setting for the image. Where were you? Why were you there? What were the conditions? Or at least something of that nature.

I'm still struggling with the idea of manipulating the image. I struggle with overly-manipulated images, Charlie. Ridiculously blue skies.... overly sharpened subjects... greens that are almost yellow... red that look too purple... to my eye this is more about playing with software than participating in photography (but that is my personal hangup and I admit to it). A little sharpening... a little brightening... a little color correction and some cropping but only if absolutely necessary. That's it for me.

"but only if absolutely necessary."
from the years that I visited these photo sharing sites... it seems that many many photographers see things the way you do.
 James you speak about not liking the overly corrected image... too manipulation, too much colour, too much, sharpening too much this and that... I agree 100% with you. Too much is too much... but food tastes better with a little added salt no?

you know I respect your stance on PP and please know that I don't mean to tease you but I can't help but think about all the differnt film companies, and all their different film stocks, and then all the different print papers and the different chemicals, and the different film processing treatments and the dodging and the burning and unsharp mask and all the rest of post processing to get the final image. It seems that traditioinal film has tons of ways of 'correcting' a photograph between the time that it is captured to the time that we see it on the wall. So to me one of the new digital generation photogs it's the same just deal just done in computer instead of in the darkroom. Heck most of the digital filters try to copy the look of film techniques anyway. So again, to me it's not much different. But I can appreciate the purists' pursuit of fidelity.

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Neat shot...are the tides extreme in your area?