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5/...Marcell Nicolausz-"Bohemian Switzerland-Two Kids"
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Marcell Nikolausz joins us for a second time with his two photos taken in Switzerland with "Bohemian Switzerland".
The scenes from
"The Sound Of Music", the movie from 1965 with Julie Andrews and Christopher Plummer in the leading roles, came to my mind as soon as I set eyes on Marcell's second entry series. A bright sunny day in the Alps, kids roaming the thick, high, green blanket of grass and flowers, the pitched roofs of the authentic Alpine buildings showing only barely from the top of a hill. Only the music is missing from these pictures.
Marcell chose to go downhill and shoot uphill to give us the feel of the slopes of his Bohemian Switzerland.
The big arrow which is part of the grid system is to emphasize that the photo is one-directional and missing other additional layers that show of a true valley and he almost centralized the visible pitched roof that shows over the hill. While the right of the frame is nicely occupied with grassland and trees and children, the left is free and opening up fully to the wonderful blue sky, that looks so fresh.
Following from my previous reviews' footsteps, I believe going wider, both to the left and right, would have befitted the final shot. The leaves in grid (7) and grid (9) are evidence of trees on both sides and maybe including them in the shot would have worked too.
Characteristic Layers: There are mainly two layers to the photo: the green hill and the blue vast sky. Being one-directional keeps the story of the photo under restrictive conditions and although it's a beautiful hillside, we cannot visualize the valley that comprises this hillside.
Still though, it is a photo that writes its own rules and tells its own story and anyone looking at the photo will know that, it's a photo of love, adoration, appreciation of beauty and an attempt at trying to contain that beauty.
No matter what this challenge title asked for, Marcell, this is a photo taken with your heart in it and it's valuable for that alone.
Thank you very much for your contribution. Much appreciated.
Yildiz