Thanks for reducing it, Lonnit! I agree with what you are saying. What I had in mind was including more of the building in the shot not just cropping the top. But, you may have ended up with the same composition problems if you did that. And the clouds and sky are really fantastic in this! ~Sharon
GAK! Thanks for the heads-up on size. As for the cropping of the top - I had actually done that. I stared at the two versions but found that the cropped one lost its power:
1) it lost much of that intense, dark, looming, powerful sky
2) it balanced the image so much that the steeple lost its reach and thrust
3) it changed the composition such that the clock area became the focal point, completely destroying the tension in the image. The eye would settle on the clock and then flit down to that bit of tree on the lower left. As is, the eye grabs the clock, then is thrust skyward, via the steeple, up to the weather vane, which sits smack-dab on the upper-left intersection of thirds. Lose the top and one loses the whole zooming thrust.
But I don't obsess about these things! Right!!!! ;) LOL! ~ Lonnit
I like the conversion on this, Lonnit. A good image for the lyric with nice detail and sharpness. For towering I might have liked it the top of the spire further up in the image so that it really looms. And, it is too big at 156,321 bytes. Please reduce it to 153,600 bytes when you can, thanks! ~Sharon
