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Old 11-Aug-2005   #3
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Less is more ... ommmm

IMHO, the artist tried to crowd too much on here.

The rock's profile is blurred by the trees at the top, and the trees at the top aren't so well-developed or interesting that they are worth using to blur the outline of the rock.

Now, if the trees at the top were more developed and refined to look like, say, a monterey pine at the top of a cliff, I'd rethink this approach. As it is, we are working with limited material and I'd ditch the "halo of green" going on here.

Instead, I would let the rock's outline stand out, like the top of a cliff, and have just two trees clining for life on the side. IMHO, there's a whole lot more wabi in this approach.

less is more, ommmm

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