June 2017 - THIS week's PICTURE
Tom at the Chapel of the Holy Cross, Sedona, Arizona: photo by Malcolm Aslett
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First pass with a bunch of photos from the southerly aspect of the curving wall around the Chapel of the Holy Cross outside of Sedona. I can't tell you how bored this boy was. A magnificent landscape, a daring piece of architecture, a blue sky that the Electric Light Orchestra would probably have written a song about. But what it didn't have was a wifi connection. Kids nowadays. Just like when we were kids, only taller.
As it stands I like the basic composition, with the curving line of the wall, the boy sitting at some 'golden ratio' type point and a moderate sized wedge of blue sky offsetting the direction of his view like a piece of aged Stilton. The plan is to remove some of the extraneous figures. That woman to the right is mysterious enough a Magritte figure to keep as is one of the figures to the top left. The awkward part is what to do with that transition of hills that moves from a nice reddy hue to a washed out blue and the lack of a decent exposure of the boy with sufficient detail. I will have to see what works. Update next week.
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