I don't know what sort of trouble you've gotten entangled in Charlie, but the spirit of this thread is commendable. I shot less than a dozen rolls of film this year--only started poking around /p/ again during this winter holiday. But the contents of your pictures (norway) makes me feel as though I'd never left.
>>2995044>>2995049>>2995052>>2995053>>2995054>>2995050I think these are your best pictures, I didn't look too closely at the rest but they seemed overly generic. In these ones your eye has clearly been drawn to rich, visually interesting patterns and colours that spread out more or less horizontally on the ground. But these crucial qualities are being overpowered and obscured by the compositions, more precisely by the dominant, open horizon lines therein. The privilege you're giving the horizon (by making it the main point of visual interest) decisively renders the experience of space in the images in terms of linear or renaissance perspective. This implies a quality of depth and volume, a sense of spatial orientation, that quite literally flattens these pretty natural displays into projected surfaces, like wallpaper.
To put it differently, it seems like you're disregarding what is brilliant and valuable about the world in front of you as you attempt instead to reproduce a preconceived ideal image of what you (well, you and most of western civilization I guess) think a landscape should be. But this is such a deprecated genre that you shouldn't be afraid of trying to break the mould.
>>2995131I don't mind the direction you're going (away from 'straight' photography) at all
>>2995276Nice, really nice use of dof
>>2995342I like this presentation, it's far less stultifying than seeing them one by one
>>2995371the location and composition are both super interesting. I find the picture oversaturated though.
