Out of the Box Image of the Week Hilary Hahn for week ending 6/24/2011 - Alone

[Roman Kurywczak]

Congratulations Hilary Hahn for your image "Alone" being chosen as the Out of the Box Image of the Week for the week ending 6/24/2011!!!

I have struggled with this image for the last 2 days trying to get the composition right and the right amount of texture to increase the foreboding nature of the approaching storm. I settled on a Maasai warrior walking to introduce a spot of colour and to give a sense of scale, poor bloke has been relocated from a nice walk in the evening with no hint of rain …

I have cropped mainly clouds from the top but also have a little more foreground which I cropped off as it holds little detail or interest. Would be happy to have + and - thoughts and how to improve it as it has almost defeated me!

OP link: http://www.birdphotographers.net/for...read.php/85401

[Dave Mills]

Hi Hillary, your struggle has ended with a big success. Compelling image! Well deserved congrats!

[denise ippolito]

Nice work Hilary! Congratulation!

[Indranil Sircar]

Congratulations Hilary! Outstanding and one of my favorite of yours!

[Harshad Barve]

Congratulations Hilary, well seen and captured

[Tom Redd]

Hilary, well titled and well composed. Congratulations on a moving image!

[Hilary Hann]

Thank you all very much.

[Brendan Dozier]

Congratulations, Hilary!

[Cheryl Slechta]

Congratulations, Hilary

[Grant Atkinson]

Super work Hilary, the colours and the comp are superb
Well deserved recognition for this one..
cheers
Grant

[Steve Kaluski]

You 'dark horse' where have you been hiding this one, it's fantastic Hilary.

Big congratulations for this and as Grant said, well deserved recognition.

[Hilary Hann]

Thank you Steve, your approval on this means a lot to me. I am very careful to only post in wildlife, images which have had minimal changes so I travel between wildlife and OOTB (but they are always wildlife related) as I push boundaries and envelopes towards a style which fits what I like visually. I'm trying to develop a way of producing the same style 'in camera' so that I can post and enter competitions legitimately but in the style I am developing. This is way harder than I imagined.

[Susan Candelario]

You struggle paid off, Hilary. Very nice work and a big congrats for your IOW.

[Hilary Hann]

Thanks Susan

[John Ippolito]

A beautiful creation! Congratulations, Hilary.