Critique Welcomed Turning for Home

[Milan Vjestica]

The Space Shuttle Atlantis at the Kennedy Space Center.



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[Rob MacKillop]

Oh, that first is a cracker. I feel I'm in space, closing in on it. I'm very jealous, as I've always wanted to visit the Kennedy Space Centre, and have been fascinated by space travel since the first moon landing, which was a BIG event in our school. We all kept a project book, with pictures and text. I loved that book. See what your image has rekindled?!

 

[Milan Vjestica]

Rob, I am with you and glad it triggered those memories. It has always been a place I wanted to visit. Well worth it. Thank you.

 

[Martin Pancisin]

@Milan, congrats they are both eye catchers. I would go completely BW in the first one and maybe play with the light curve to get even more dramatic image.

That said, I feel that the second is subtly more important, but I might be interpreting things that are not there... Did you have a particular idea/point to make when shooting the other one?

 

[John Holland]

The first image is amazing, Milan - excellent perspective/POV. I used to live ~20 miles south of the KSC - watched many a rocket and shuttle launch from my backyard. Even got to watch a shuttle launch from about 3 miles away.

 

[Pete Askew]

What more can I add. Superb stuff Milan - almost like snakeskin. I still have my copy of The Exploration of Space by Arthur C Clarke (1951) that I bought in a jumble sale when I was about 7 - no doubt being inspired by the Apollo missions.

 

[Pete Askew]

And I still cross with my sister for not taking me to see 2001 when it came out!

 

[Milan Vjestica]

Martin, for the second I was trying to portray a sense of scale and some wonderment at the engineering feat that these rockets represent.

 

[Milan Vjestica]

Martin, this would be my version of a B&W image. I probably still prefer the natural slight sepia tint of the colour. What do you think?

 

[Pete Askew]

I think I do too.

 

[Brian Moore]

Color one for me too. Smashing image, Milan. Like Rob says,...you feel like your closing in on it. (Like Dave, maybe, trying to get back in despite you know who. )

 

[Ivar Dahl-Larsen]

As amazing as it is, and as good as the your images are Milan and what they create in my mind, my personal feeling of exploring space is very different from many others I am afraid.

 

[Martin Pancisin]

So yes, I was interpreting things that were not there
Milan I find the BW version of the first picture somehow more futuristic ans yet gritty and to some extend even sterile.
The color version with the sepia tones on the edge gives an impression of a sunset and the old glory of the machine. Both are amazing in their own way!

 

[Milan Vjestica]

Martin, I am now curious as to what you saw in the image? Thank you for the comments.

 

[Martin Pancisin]

First there are "only" two rockets in the picture and then there is the fact that the both rockets (despite their evolution) must be supported/locked by multiple ropes to be able to stand. This one could see as a metaphor to the current state of affairs in aeronautics and space exploration.

 

[Milan Vjestica]

Thanks for sharing a very interesting perspective. It does make you think about the curtailment, globalisation and realignment of the space programme.

You certainly think a lot deeper than me!

 

[Martin Pancisin]

I am just biased Milan