Tribute To Monet

C/C welcome and appreciated:

I associate Sunflowers more with Van Gogh myself Terri.

This is OK, it could be better.

The shadow is, to be honest, ugly and the texture of the wall doesn't fit the smoothness of the rest of the image.

I also find the dead leaf at the bottom left of the vase a little out of place and the blurred look it has competes with the book pages.

I personally would just like to see the vase of Sunflowers on their own without the other distractions, you are so good at those simple shots that have real impact (the peppers image for example).

I really have to disagree with Stewart on just about everything.

I am thinking like an artist, less like a photographer Terri and the artist in my says this is a super shot. I would be proud to hang it on my wall.

Well done!

Jan wrote:

I really have to disagree with Stewart on just about everything.

I am thinking like an artist, less like a photographer Terri and the artist in my says this is a super shot. I would be proud to hang it on my wall.

Well done!

Each to their own Jan.

I looked at this from a Photographers point of view because that is what it is and because Terri will probably be entering this into one of her comps as a photograph.

If it had been treated to some post processing to make it look like a painting then that would have been a different matter.

Monets eyesight wasn't the best which is why his paintings had that blurred/streaked look and to pay full tribute to him as the title suggests it could possibly be given some gaussian blur and motion blur treatment to it??

I was going to enter it in the "still life with motion" challenge...but, the dead life that is blurry, bummed me out....the unevenness of the shadow, which had a lot of red/magenta in it also did not make me happy. I think maybe I'll take this and use an impressionistic filter on it and see if I can get more out of it. I do like the movement on the pages...that was intentional, done with a fan.

I'm glad you liked it Jan...