This weeks images are finally starting to talk about sublime in the classical sense. We all agree that the image of the big vista looking out at the mountains with your head lining up with the horizon is excellent!
With the birch trees we like that we have to look for you but the references that the composition point to are a little distraction to us accessing it with out thinking of adams and the cover of that basic b+w photo book.
with the viewer image we talked about you trying the same type of image with a telescope or from the front.
Think about using the night sky some how.
To look at:
For fun check out this episode of This American Life. It's called 'Nice Work If You Can Get It" and it's all fantastic but the story I have in mind is about Charles Preuss - he was a cartographer who traveled with John Fremont exploring the West. In the episode there are some excerpts from his diaries that make me think of that near miss moment in some of your images. He is there seeing the untouched west, just this endless wilderness and it had to be close to sublime and all that he talks about is wanting to be at the grocery getting wine.
When I went to see the Turner show at the met there was this amazing painting that was just beautiful and then there was this story on the wall next to it explaining that the dog in the image was painted on a piece of paper and latter attached. I don't know why that is but it made me like it even more. Turner Paintings
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