The water-horses

[David Paterson]

Showing a Japanese guest around, I took him to see "the kelpies" - massive public sculptures commemorating the working horses of Scotland. I have posted images of these twice before (at Fotozones), so I was looking for a way to give them a different treatment.

[Erik Lund]

I think it is must to try and redo the same scene different when visited again I think the shot and PP works quite convincing here, almost a Loch Ness look to it

[antonoat]

Dave,
I really like this, I wonder how many people had the same idea, not many I reckon.
It's a great subject, which could be photographed in so many different ways, I like what you've created.

I hope your Japanese friend was impressed!

tony

[David Paterson]

Thanks, Erik and Tony.

I still have pictures to take at the kelpies because although I've now visited them four times, I've never seen them in sunshine - when they will look very different.

[Bjørn J]

I like this a lot, Dave. I opened it large on the dark background, and I kept looking and looking at it.

[afx]

This is even better than your first shots!
Great idea of trying something different.

cheers
afx

[Thomas Stellwag]

it is very well composed
the colour of water, shadows and and the size of the (mini)waves correlate extremly well
now we have to redefine:  photography is painting with water

[Mike G]

Good oh Dave, very quirky view but nonetheless very clever!

[gryphon1911]

I like them.  My only quibble, and it is very small and really....ultra nit picky, is the "extra" stuff at the bottom right of each of the horses necks.  I'd probably clone that out.

Beyond that I really like the different look the rippled water gives the subjects.

[armando_m]

I  like this  interpretation , an interesting variation

many of us have seen the images of the real thing, I'm not sure the reflection  image works by it self

[The_Traveler]

I like this a lot, Dave. I opened it large on the dark background, and I kept looking and looking at it.

Exactly.
It suffers on a light background (and that bottle (sic?)) in the lower right is a bit out of sorts.

However, a great concept

L

[David Paterson]

Thank you all for commenting, and it's so nice to hear from so many old friends and acquaintances.

Andrew and Lew - I was also a bit unhappy with some of the stuff along the bottom of shot and have done some further editing, incl. a colour-change. This not yet final and I may go back to the raw file and start again, with a clearer idea of where I want to get to with the pp.

[Akira]

Dave, both the idea and your execution are fantastic!  However, interestingly, the image of the real pair of sculptures posted in FZ looked more surreal than this image of reflection.  The effects of these two kinds of abstraction (the sculptures and their reflection) might be canceling each other?

[David Paterson]

Akira - that's an interesting idea. Perhaps two stainless steel horses 33m high are quite abstract enough, without adding further abstraction by photographing the reflection. You could be right.

[Anthony]

Interesting, I think Akira is on to something.