Kenn Pier

[taffy]

Taken recently when we had snow locally.

Kenn Pier is the name of the spot where this was taken and refers to the small bridge I was standing on. These straight channels are all across this area to drain the low lying land and prevent flooding. Three channels come together here to form a crossroads and flow out to sea about 2 miles to the left of this photo.

As always, comments (and critiques) welcome!

Thanks

taffy

[Marko]

You sure do love your piers

For me, the entire shot becomes about the yellow life preserver. It's interesting, but not a choice I would have made here.
The composition is strong - the yellow takes away from the lines here, and for me is a huge distraction.
Just curious, why did you make this choice?

[Lorey]

When I first looked at this I had the same thoughts as Marko, without reading his post. I also agree that the yellow life preserver is a distraction in what would be an awesome bw image.

[taffy]

The scene was almost black and white when I took the photograph and this orange ring just stood out so thought it would be a good idea to leave that one bit of colour after converting. However sometimes you get too wedded to the idea rather than look at the image as a a whole! This forum is good at snapping you out of that! Will draw a line under this one and post the unadulterated version and let you tell me if it looks better.

thanks for commenting

taffy

[Realist]

Never seen a life preserver in the country before, very strange.

[asnow]

I too find the life preserver too distracting and prefer the full B&W as in the other post.