[Theme] minimalist images

[schwett]

as always some really interesting images here.

this scene struck me as a high-key, minimal moment, in actual life. the camera here shows essentially what my eye saw.

[Akira]

Love this beautiful distribution of the light, Schwett!

[Bjørn Rørslett]

Last winter we had just a little snow. I pass by this scene every day, on my way to fetch my little red Peugeot and lost count of how many times I have snapped a shot of that white-painted picket fence. The neighbour kids had played football ('soccer') despite the dusting of snow so added patterns to a world of mainly cold blue whites.

Nikon Df, 35-70 mm f/3.5 Nikkor AIS (62 mm thread)

[elsa hoffmann]

Schwett - truly minimalistic. Well captured!

[Bjørn Rørslett]

Schwett: so minimalistic that the shadows along the wall become critical supports for the entire frame

[Bjørn Rørslett]

Time to add more minimalism. This one actually was shot as a caricature of the slogan of the Norwegian Conservative Party ('Høyre'), by many jokingly named a flowing roll of toilet paper. The similarity is striking for sure. I intended to be a little more discreet though so so came up with this,

(D3S, 180/4 APO-Lanthar)

[Bjørn Rørslett]

A Virginia creeper tries to sneak unnoticed into my dining room. These trailing shots are all over my house on the sunny side and I usually try to ignore them. This time, I made a snapshot of the intruder first, then cut off the trailing plant immediately afterwards.

(Nikon D2X, 105 mm f/2 Nikkor DC)

[Mike G]

Bjorn that VC photo is a cracker!

[Jakov Minić]

It's been a long time since I posted a minimalist flower
Df + PN-11 + 45P (scratch painting)

[elsa hoffmann]

That's beautiful Jakov!

[John Geerts]

Beautiful shots, indeed.

A sunny day on the waterfront in may 2007.

D80  300/4

[Bjørn Rørslett]

A late autumn afternoon at a nearby forest lake, very calm weather so the mood became relaxed and very tranquil. After a while one cannot stand the quietness anymore, though.

Nikon D600, AF 200 mm f/3.5 Nikkor ED-IF (the elusive one for F3AF, with renewed CPU to make it compatible with our generation of DSLRs)

[Jakov Minić]

Thanks Elsa!
I dig tranquility 

[golunvolo]

Very special Jakov

[Bjørn Rørslett]

Fences in winter landscapes are unbeatable for simplicity and minimalism. I find myself often shooting such subjects with long lenses, to add more to their inherently graphic nature. This scene is done with the venerable Zoom-Nikkor 200-600 mm f/9.5, a lens mostly going under the radar of current Nikon community as very few if any at all have heard of it. A surprising sharp and long yet lightweight zoom lens, the 200-600 in its various incarnations stayed for a long time on the list of offered Nikkors. It was designed well before the arrival of ED glass and sophisticated coatings so image quality might not be entirely up to modern standards, in particular as far as contrast goes. Its build quality is impeccable and that for a change also includes the tripod mount

My sample is an AIS from the very last production series around 1983.