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Phil Douglis | all galleries >> Galleries >> Gallery Sixty Three: Dimensions of grandeur – larger than life travel imagery > Mount Moran, from Oxbow Bend, Grand Teton National Park, Wyoming, 2008
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07-OCT-2008

Mount Moran, from Oxbow Bend, Grand Teton National Park, Wyoming, 2008

By framing Mount Moran horizontally, I stress the flow of the mountain range, and the flaming red trees at its base, as well as the reflection of its glacier in the Snake River below. It is scene of fall splendor. A moment later, I photographed the same scene in a vertical frame ( http://www.pbase.com/image/104715497 ), gathering many more clouds into the frame and making the mountain smaller in the process. These images express their ideas in differing ways – the vertical shot draws the eye from river to sky, while this horizontal shot sweeps across the mountain range, with the trees and reflection at its base. Both images express grandeur, and present a natural scene in a larger than life context

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Phil Douglis06-Sep-2014 19:27
Thanks, "Missed Opportunities," for coming to this image. I am glad you enjoyed those colors. Looking at this picture again six years after I made and posted it here, I have an even greater understanding of the importance of those fall colors. Those colors are the key to why this image works as well as it does.
Missed Opportunities06-Sep-2014 00:10
Wonderful image; especially like the fall colors of October
Phil Douglis24-Oct-2008 00:35
You have a vivid imagination, Jenene -- and that always adds so much to the joy of reading images. I can see the linkage of the red foliage to a wound. It is the only primary color in the image, and nature has intensified it.
Phil Douglis24-Oct-2008 00:35
You have a vivid imagination, Jenene -- and that always adds so much the joy of reading images. I can see the linkage of the red foliage to a wound. It is the only primary color in the image, and nature has intensified it.
JSWaters23-Oct-2008 01:50
The brilliant red trees caught my eye first as they slashed their way into the scene. I hope this doesn't sound too odd, but my imagination conjurs up a raw wound, blood seeping above and below, foreshadowing a less than hospitable climate change coming.
Jenene
Phil Douglis20-Oct-2008 18:11
All the elements were here for me, Mo, as you note. However we still had to create the structure to make it work -- framing, exposure, layering, color balance, and so on.
monique jansen20-Oct-2008 14:48
Absolutely gorgeous image, warm colors, golden-red treeline, blue sky, white snow
Phil Douglis19-Oct-2008 18:42
Thanks for the high praise, Alina -- the clouds, colors, and reflections had a lot to say here. This image, and the vertical version in my cloud gallery, say entirely different things. The colorful trees play a much bigger part in this image while the explosion of clouds is the whole point of the other. I don't have a preference for either -- they each do what they do quite differently and quite well.
Alina19-Oct-2008 04:59
Wow, Phil I think it is the best landscape photo I’ve ever seen. Fall colors really pops out in evening light with incredible warmth. The clouds wrapping around the mountain tops like giant snake. I saw your vertical shot too but I prefer composition of this one. The scenery is like out of this planet! I’m so sorry that I have only one vote Phil.
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