Motif: Landscapes - "The Palisades"

[Gus Cobos]

Motif: Landscapes – “The Palisades”

Note: circa 2005. – Fort Tyron Park, New York City


This is a panoramic view of the famous Palisades in New Jersey as seen from Fort Tyron Park on the Manhattan side of the Hudson River.

This was taken late afternoon around 4:00p.m.

The image was painted with a Nikon F100, 35mm film camera, using a Nikkor 20mm f/2.8D AF lens. The negative was scanned into digital jpeg format.

Comments greatly appreciated...:cool:

[Alfred Forns]

Another classic image Gus Particularly like the mood and layers !!

[Lance Peters]

Love it gus - has a real 3D feel to it and the man in the red jumper immediatley draws your attention. :)

[Kerry Perkins]

Very nice composition and colors! The framing of the trees reminds me of a Maxfield Parrish work. The different planes give it nice dimensionality and the spot of red makes a great visual anchor. Love it!

[Glenn Romain]

Very nice indeed Gus ,Well composed and Captured. Love it :)

[denise ippolito]

Gus, This is just beautiful! I love the colors and composition. Very nice!

[Harold Davis]

awesome colors!! agree with lance about the layers and 3D feel. just classic!

[David Thomasson]

Beautiful, Gus! I second all the others about color and depth, but this one gets an A+
for composition -- the intriguing balance between the three trees, the three benches,
and the lone person. Super work. ;)

[Jackie Schuknecht]

Great comp Gus. Like how your eye moves around the frame and finally to that RED shirt.

[Katie Rupp]

It's all been said and I agree, this is vwd and memorable.

[Roman Kurywczak]

Hi Gus,
Looks like you captured the afternoon haze very well. As mentioned above.....this had a very nice feel to it with the use of the layers and you included just enough of the sky and trees to make it work. I did explore cropping the branch coming in from the left.....with a crop just past the 2nd post of the middle ground bench......did seem to strenghten it for my tastes......but not sure it has that significant of an impact to improve on what you presented. Either way.....very nicely composed!