"There isn't enough of anything
as long as we live. But at intervals
a sweetness appears and, given a chance
prevails."
— Raymond Carver
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So lovely and simply and such a sensual treatment in B&W....grasses and benches in the background. Soothing!
17 Jun 2009 6:03am
Absolutly wonderful! Great use of the light and the DOF.
17 Jun 2009 6:19am
Yes, a delicate sweetness on the sky and the day can turn!
17 Jun 2009 6:35am
Fantastic use of D of F - works wonderfully well in B & W
17 Jun 2009 6:50am
Love the duet with Carver's quote, and I do agree entirely, at intervals, extraordinary sweetnesses appear and we know that so well, photographers... Thanks for illustrating it so sweetly ~
17 Jun 2009 7:16am
Remarkable shot which really engages the imagination . . it is like a secret waiting to be told.
17 Jun 2009 7:35am
Superb view - great postprocessing, nothing left to say ... ^^
17 Jun 2009 8:24am
Love the vigneting effect here, gives a nice mood to the whole image. Something almost intimate.
17 Jun 2009 8:36am
beautiful composition...love the detail in the grass, and the bokeh is very nice as well :)
17 Jun 2009 8:37am
This is sooo peaceful and gentle - beautifully done.
17 Jun 2009 8:47am
very beautiful b&w! Like the seat benchs in the background!
17 Jun 2009 9:17am
great mood you created here, the bokeh is very nice as well.
17 Jun 2009 10:08am
Perfect vignetting, I like the benches at the background, and perhaps I miss someone to be seated, but the sceneries are not always the way we'd like, anyway this one is pure beauty.
17 Jun 2009 10:15am
These small grasses are always watching over the benches and people there.
17 Jun 2009 11:33am
nice composition and wiew from the grass, excellent DOF ! poetic mood !
17 Jun 2009 11:36am
So very peaceful. Love your point-of-view and how you've framed this with the grass in the foreground.
17 Jun 2009 11:52am
Really like the focus in this one. Very nice.
17 Jun 2009 12:02pm
Wonderful perspective on this shot Sharon! A soothing and reflective shot. ;-)
17 Jun 2009 12:05pm
Great DOF. This composittion is simply wonderful. Very nice work. Congrats!!
17 Jun 2009 12:32pm
Nice to get down low like that. The two benches really shout out 'absence'
17 Jun 2009 1:02pm
great effect from the shallow depth of field....lovely mood!
17 Jun 2009 1:09pm
a fine b&w image, very nice dof and i like the overall feel of it too.. nice work! :)
17 Jun 2009 1:11pm
really like this little "peek" B&W image. nice. :)
17 Jun 2009 2:39pm
Absolutely perfect mix of photo and quote.
17 Jun 2009 2:48pm
wonderfully cinematic BC!! love the emphasis on timelessness and nature with man as a second and distant thought! lovely!!
17 Jun 2009 3:11pm
Nice composition! Very beautiful poetic image! Excellent DOF!
17 Jun 2009 4:49pm
Super composition and DoF. Your wonderful grey scale is at wok.
17 Jun 2009 4:54pm
Great low angle and love the benches in the background , wonderful processing as well.
17 Jun 2009 4:57pm
I love the winding effect here, nicely composed sharon. the DOF is just perfect from the benches!
17 Jun 2009 5:04pm
Very nice. I like how it quickly goes from sharp to soft. The benches almost call you to them.
17 Jun 2009 5:10pm
It's lovely and I like it in greyscale.
17 Jun 2009 5:21pm
And we are just like this grass, pushed by the winds. Nice vision of our fragility.
17 Jun 2009 5:39pm
Concentrating on the sweetness helps forgetting everything else. Is the act of looking at those grasses that is important.
17 Jun 2009 6:09pm
A great mood is created by this carefully crafted image. Love it.
17 Jun 2009 9:21pm
Amazing BW. The composition and the DOF are excellent.
17 Jun 2009 9:36pm
Very moody, or dreamy... image. Open to possibilities and interpretations.
17 Jun 2009 11:32pm
Great illustration for the words of Carver, one of my favorite poet and writer.
18 Jun 2009 4:55am
very suggestive background, and it's suggest human presence beyond the plants. I enjoy the softness of this picture
18 Jun 2009 6:36am
Excellent mood you created here Sharon. Almost like a dream.
18 Jun 2009 10:58am
Love the vignetting effect and the benches on the background! You created a very nice photo again Sharon! Very nice photo indeed...
18 Jun 2009 1:02pm
WOW!!!! This just so beautiful!! It is so calming and peaceful...great work bc:-)
18 Jun 2009 1:58pm
Great shot. Peaceful and we love the focus point.
18 Jun 2009 4:53pm
I can never think of grass or weed when mentioning the word certainty. BUT, we can be certain grass and weed will always come out with a bit of water and rain. Nice shot and title.
18 Jun 2009 6:21pm
I like the sentiment and feel it in the shot. Nice post. :-)
18 Jun 2009 7:49pm
Great shot of these reeds at eye level! Love the processing too.
18 Jun 2009 8:25pm
What a pleasure to come back on this original pov, with the benches lost in the white of the absence.
18 Jun 2009 8:27pm
I really like the way you have played with the depth of field in this shot.
18 Jun 2009 8:46pm
Has a certain doomed feel to it, great use of dof.
19 Jun 2009 4:11am
The wonderful quote lends tremendous depth to this delicately composed image of something so simple yet so significant...great work!
19 Jun 2009 6:18pm
Well done, Sharon. It looks like something I would do. ;)
21 Jun 2009 7:12am
Great shot, it has a very delicate feel to it.
24 Jun 2009 8:26pm
NIKON D70
1/60 second
F/4.5
ISO 200
70 mm