mountain coral

[Bentwing]

I like this,......... but I suspect that that is just me........ Any comments?

[jiminyClickit]

Bentwing,

The part that makes you think it's just you who likes it, is self doubt, maybe because of the hundreds of things we suggest here to make a photo "better." Good: if all we ever did was make you think twice about what gets squeezed through your lens, that would be enough. Getting specific can help you more.

Subject you wanted to spotlight? Feeling you wanted to express in the photo? One of those needs to be strengthened. More fence detail would be one way: showing a whole post more into frame, maybe with a horseshoe nailed to it? More snow would elicit the weather reaction in us. Look around, figure out what photos make you look at them, then try those things the photographer did differently.

It's not a bad shot, but you suspected something. What doesn't knock your socks off about it?

[geotography]

Good Morning Bentwing,

What more can be said beyond jiminyClickit's sage critique?? Here is a question: Do any creatures live within the corral (sp) coral?

[clockdoc]

Technically you have a nice capture of the wood. I suspect there was something here that caught your eye and you tried to capture it digitally. Sometimes what we see in our mind's eye is best left as a memory as we can never quite duplicate the image in reality.

[Bentwing]

Normally outfitters use this corral for their staging point. This time off year the outfitters don't go to the high country on horse back so it is abandoned. The hole place seems rather lonely, waiting to spring to life.
With the winter lighting the weathered wood of the corral jumps out at you but I don't think I captured it well, if I try cranking up the contrast it looks worse.

[Winning Post]

Following on from jiminyClickit's comment, you may have answered your own question in your last post. (I like what is there although i think the deep DOF leaves too much for the eye to look at.)

If the corral is empty and disused at this time, use the empty pens and snow to show this. My first thought was 'where are the horses and cattle', it being a corral shot. a different composition could hopefully convey this straight away.