Sometimes the metaphoric wind fills your proverbial sails. IMHO, this is the best picture I've made in a while. All the formal elements are working: composition, clarity, tonal range, light, sharpness, depth of field. The boat gleams, the clouds are ominous. The zig-zag lines of the rails and stairs pull the eye through areas that are not as they should be. Our colleague Victor of Gabriola Daily Photo, whose work and artistic style I respect greatly, left a one-word comment about this image on Flickr: perfect.So I'm kinda proud of this but your reaction may vary. One person's rose is another's weed. As Robert Henri said in The Art Spirit, "Don't take me as an authority. I am simply expressing a very personal point of view. Nothing final about it. You have to settle all these matters for yourself."
