It is fascinating to see how two photographers standing right next to each other can produce entirely different meanings with just a very small shift in frame position. You chose to build your image around a third photographer, who is making his own image here. His reverent bow to the work of time and nature becomes your own story as well. You frame your image to carry the eye deeply into the picture, stressing the gulch at right, pulling the eye out of the frame into a gash of white sky. If you compare your framing to my own interpretation athttp://www.pbase.com/pnd1/image/119662024, you will see that I shift my frame to the left, entirely removing both sky and gulch. I waited until the other photographer had left so that I could tell a different story altogether -- the same story that nature is trying to tell us by revealing the amazing head and shoulders profile of what appears to be a bearded man embraced in the texture of the rock: the face of time itself. The same textural story appears in your image as well, but because your own story was centered on a reverent approach to photography, the face becomes contextual in this image, rather than the essence of the story itself. And all of this happens because of how each of us chose to use our frames as expression.
