Dale, the only sound I can hear is my inner self saying 'Crikey, I wish I could take something like that...'
Thanks, although it isn't one of my favourites and I'm yet to get one from that spot that I'm truly happy with.
For me it’s not so much the sounds that come flowing back, rather the scent of the place. When I look at my coastal shots I can smell the sea, moorland shots the heather. To be fair that could well be related to the fact my hearing isn’t the best though
Yes, I think it's more than just hearing, other senses can be triggered too. If you've taken the image, it could be smells, sounds, even touch, like having the sun on your skin, not that we get much of that here. With the image I posted, I am also hearing the A82, which is quite close by. Not quite the sound a neutral viewer might 'hear' but it's been triggered for me with this one.
Images can trigger all sorts of reactions. They can call up life experiences - some sensory or emotional memory, or a synthesis of those plus impromptu imaginings. The main thing as a viewer is that you get something from it. It's a kind of food ...
But this image has a cartoon-like quality - I could imagine a cartoonish splashing, but don't deeply feel it ... so I feel on that balance that it's just you ...!
This is turning into an image crit - sorry! I've got you down as a dedicated wildlifer / documentarian, but this image seems over-hyped and far from redolent of the real experience of being in that place. It's too lurid!
Step back, and consider how it really feels to be there?
People who are artistically adept can elasticate tone & colour beyond the sensible, & create another meaning - but from this example you're not amongst their number. :-(
We all have personal associations with our images. But mostly, we might as well set those aside when sharing images with others ...
Thanks.
I would actually agree about the cartoon quality, (probably due to heavy shadow recovery as it was underexposed), it's how I summed this image up myself when I processed it and one of the reasons why I wouldn't show it off, other than for illustrative purposes.
I think that every photogroph that we take evokes a memory of that moment. It could be a sound, a smell, a particular feeling or any other emotion which the picture evokes.
Personally I don't like slow shutter speed shots of water like this but if you do then that is your prerogative. It is your photograph and your connections.
Keep on taking pictures that are important to you and ignore criticism from from those who can only wish that they had done it themselves.
It's true what you say about the memory of the moment, I hear the water, I smell the soaking heather and mud, I feel my soaking wet feet and I hear the A82 in the distance when I look at this one. It's odd, I can't view the image in a neutral sense as I was there but I see others from here and I hear that waterfall, as well as the much larger one to the left, out of shot.
Sort of, for some pictures I vividly remember just about everything. I have very vivid dreams so maybe the two are related. I often put a slideshow on of the days pictures and it sometimes is almost like being there again.
This is one of the powers that photography has, even old photographs, before my time take me back there and I get all the sounds that I would get from a more up to date image.
