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AnaVera 9 months ago

i like it - :) AnaVera

Jef Van den Houte 11 months ago

Great landscape composition with amazing light

subir ghosh 1 year ago

Wow....looks fantastic...some kind of magical.
Onw thing I want to know or learn( what ever): who can you made it possible where the person and dogs are still but land and water are in motion? I'll love to know that, if you like to share the secret.

Have a good day,

regards,
Subir

Pavan Kaul 1 year ago

absolutely brilliant and truly inspiring..the light is magical and the sense of scale, stunning!

Mal Smart Pavan, thank you, rich and lovely comment that cheered me.

all the best
mal

Bread and Shutter 1 year ago

sublime

Mal Smart very very kind of you B&S, thank you. mal

Codrin Lupei 2 years ago

You know how very, very much I love this image, Mal, I am happy to look at it here too! Thanks!

Mal Smart Codrin, always a pleasure to have your words next to my image, my best to you. mal

Claudio Solera 2 years ago

Excellent work Mal! Ciao,Claudio.

Mal Smart Claudio, thank you very much. mal

Frederick Lim Cung Wei 2 years ago

Stunning. Composition, light n scale are excellent.

Mal Smart Frederick, very pleased to read your words.

my best to you.
mal

Carine Hengst 2 years ago

Gefeliciteerd!!! Schitterend!!

Mal Smart Dank je wel Carine

all the best
mal

Robert Jurjevic 2 years ago

I wonder why I feel nothing... is something wrong with me... or it's just a taste... Mal I see that you stick to your subject matter... regards, Robert

Mal Smart Hi Robert

Nothing wrong with you at all, it just does not "float your boat" so to speak and I can totally understand that.

One of the things that I have found so very interesting here at 1x is that one mans meat is another mans poison, especially seeing things develop in screening. Images that I care very little for (for what ever reason - technical/mood or whatever) others see something in or in reverse, an image that I fall in love with in screening others dismiss without a second glance. this is exactly why I keep coming back over and over again. The one thing that I can say with absolute certainty is that "I am very glad that I am not the only person that picks all the images that reach the front page" 1x would not be the beast that it is if I were.

all the best
mal

Mandy Schoch 2 years ago

What a beauty, Mal.
I'm not often lacking in the word department, but after looking at this one for a very long while, I find I have no words for you... at least none beyond a kindergartner's vocabulary. I just hope you take my speechlessness as a compliment :)
Mandy

Mal Smart Dearest Mandy, you made me smile after a thoroughly crappy day at work, thank you so much. I have never heard silence sound so nice.

all the very best
mal

Mandy Schoch Who knew a reply with the word crappy in it could sound so lovely :)) Thank you, Mal.
This one just popped up in the random show... I think what I love most about it is that I can relate so well to the entire feel of this day. It is so familiar to me even though I have never been to this specific place. It reminds me of the zillions of summer days I spent on the beach with my dogs... who are all gone now. Funny that memories can simultaneously be so happy and so sad, you know? And how cool is it that a beautiful photo can instantly trigger such emotion.
At least I found a few words for you today. The speechlessness thing just doesn't sit right with me.
Very best wishes to you :)
Mandy

Phyllis Clarke 2 years ago

Mal, What a perfect name for this place - Grimsby - Desolation is what it feels like..I think you sure captured that perfectly. The processing is excellent and moooodeee for sure. :) You did this with petroleum jelly? It looks like he is at the end of the world. I don't know where this is - but I will look it up right now. Great shot. Congratulations. My best, Phyllis

Okay I went to look and I thought it would be at the end of the world - it is in ye old England. :) And really not so isolated after all. So double congratulations...to you..you created the sense that it is at the end of the world.....

Mal Smart Phyllis you are so kind and it is a pleasure to read your words.

Yes, it is partly a Vaseline shot. I had the cam on a tripod with the lens fitted a simple cheap cokin warm up filter, a small amount of the Vaseline was smeared on the filter in strategic positions. I took about 20 test shots, applying and re-smearing the gook on the filter until happy - and then just waited for something interesting to happen for the pic.

Grimsby used to be the fishing capitol of the UK with hundreds of trawlers docking there, now a bit of a ghost town since the European fishing quotas decimated the UK'S fishing industry, my tittle alludes to this but you would have to be from Grimsby to get it really. lol

all the best
mal

fulviopellegrini 2 years ago

great composition

Mal Smart Hi F, thank you very much my friend. mal

Ralf Stelander 2 years ago

Malsterful!

Mal Smart LOL, cheers Ralf, very happy to read these funny names. mal

José Luis Mieza 2 years ago

fantastica imagen Mal, congrats

Mal Smart José Luis, very kind of you, thank you very much. mal

Colmar Wocke 2 years ago

Well done on getting it up on the front page - lovely sweep and mood at the same time.

Congrats!

Mal Smart many thanks Colmar, all the very best. mal

Andrew Thatcher 2 years ago

Those are some great looking sheep. I like the way you have shaved the rear legs for ease of grip. Can you tell me how you get the Suspenders on? I just keep getting kicked in the nuts trying to fit them. Cheers.

Mal Smart the editor of farmers.com has asked me for a reference for your membership, I have advised him to beware!... lol

Andrew Thatcher I thought he stopped talking to you after he caught you rubbing bull semen all over your Cokin.

Mal Smart nahh, that was "Bull shit"....

Cristian Rusu 2 years ago

excellent

Mal Smart Cristian, thank you and all the best. mal

Piet Flour 2 years ago

wonderful golden mood

Angela Vicedomini 2 years ago

What a beautiful mood Mal.

Mal Smart many thanks Angela. Hugs. mal

Willem de Vlaming 2 years ago

Wonderful
Great light and compo and a really great BW mood

Mal Smart Willem, I am very happy to read your response, thank you for taking the time. all the best. mal

Fernand Hick 2 years ago

Compo and lighting are excellent, Mal...!

Mal Smart hehe, cheers Fernand, I love to here that the comp is ok from you, all the best. mal

José Luis Mieza 2 years ago

wonderful work

Mal Smart José Luis, you are very kind, than you. all the best. mal

Risquillo 2 years ago

Es una estupenda imagen Mal!
FELICIDADES!

Mal Smart Risquillo, thank you very very much. mal

Ben Goossens 2 years ago

Love the mood.. congrats, Mal:-)

Mal Smart Thank you Ben, very happy that you like it. mal

Fabien BRAVIN 2 years ago

Beatiful Mal. Strong feelings here

Mal Smart Fabien, many thanks and all the best. mal

Ursula I Abresch 2 years ago

I love the sharks in the background! :)

Mal Smart Grimsby sharks Ursula, usually served with chips. lol. mal

Ursula I Abresch And some good beer, I hope!

Mal Smart do sharks drink beer?

Ursula I Abresch Don't you know, Mal, they eat (and drink) anything they can get. Yep. :)

Mal Smart yeah, humans and sharks are a bit weird from Grimsby, either served with or without chips and beer. There is a joke about the place, which, I guess can be applied anywhere "what is the best thing about Grimsby?" - "The M180 outta there" (M180 being the highway). In it's defense, there are 2 things positive to say about the place but I forgot them both.

Ursula I Abresch Hehe, that's like Laramie, Wyoming, the place best seen in your rearview mirror!

Peter Svoboda 2 years ago

great work of art,fantastic mood, beautiful composition in perfect bw conversion, compliments

Mal Smart Peter, very kind words, thank you taking the time to write them. mal

Lubomír Hnat (Cheron) 2 years ago

Great !

Mal Smart thank you very much. mal

gerard sexton 2 years ago

I like this simply because it evokes in me that feeling of solitude that wonderful feeling I always get walking along a deserted beach the sound of the sea the taste of salt on my lips yeah Mal this says it all solitude stark beauty gift of light & the three forms of life just being there! Don't ruin it....

Mal Smart a very cold Grimsby beach early one morning. I had not thought too much about this pic Gerry, I had been hunting for sea scapes but with little success and lack of inspiration and had neglected to look for other photo's on the card and had simply archived them away, glad I had another look some weeks back. all the best. mal

Remus Tiplea 2 years ago

superb

Mal Smart Remus, thank you. mal

Rui Pires 2 years ago

Very high quality BW work, Mal. This will give a superb fineart print !

Mal Smart many thanks Rui, i've not had this printed but think I will. all the best. mal

Thomas Ljungberg 2 years ago

Great lines, wonderful light! Like the way the motion of the sea is captured together with the sharp silhouettes of the man/woman and his/her dogs.
Great one Mal!

Mal Smart cheers Thomas, the pic is about 4 years old, I had not realised how lucky I had been with this scene. mal