Submitter's name:	Mickey Trageser
Title:	Wrinkled cliff
Gear used:	OM-4T, Zuiko 35mm F2.8
Diaphragm:	f11
Shutter speed:	Unrecorded
Film used:	Fuji Provia F100
Technical information:	No tripod, just me laying on my stomach hanging over the cliff edge.
Subject information:	Pacific Ocean just north of La Jolla, California in the first week of March. I was taken by the rutted wrinkles of the cliffs here. The ocean, beach and people are just a backdrop ;-) . I know there has been much debate about what constitutes a 'landscape'. My apologies to all the purists. This was the only photo I took this last month and a half that remotely fits the assignment. for more shots from the sequence, you can click here.
One more thing:	I welcome all comments, just let's not get into the qualifications of the submission. And by the way, I really had a great time with the Oly gear on that trip. I even got a 100/2.8 at a shop a block from the hotel that is used in a number of the photos on the link. Cheers!
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Comment left by: Olaf Greve (no e-mail specified)

Nice coastline shot, lovely leading lines as well.

Comment left by: Eric Pederson (epederso@darkwing.uoregon.edu)

Nice line and texture on the cliff. I find the color gradation of the sky too extreme. It would be nice if the beachhouse could either vanish or be more prominent. (I"m not quite sure what you mean by this not being a landscape for some purists. This is almost the archetype of a traditional landscape -- oops, I wasn't supposed to write that....)

Comment left by: Stephen Scharf (scharfsj@ix.netcom.com)

I really like this photograph just as it is....it works for me...every time I see the gallery on TOPE 9, my eye keeps coming back to it, so that must a good thing!

Comment left by: Wayne Harridge (no e-mail specified)

I perticularly like the sky !

Comment left by: Wayne Culberson (no e-mail specified)

Don't worry about what constitues a landscape. If the TOPE police can sea some land, it passes. However, if you want to risk your life to get the shot by hanging over the cliff edge, fine, but be careful with the Olympus gear!

Comment left by: bbbean (bbbean@beancotton.com)

Nice work. I wonder if it could be re-scanned to bring out a little mroe detail in the dark strip between the base of the cliff and the beach. A minor nit - good work.

Comment left by: John A. Lind (no e-mail specified)

I'm guessing this was a difficult shot hanging over the edge of a cliff. There is a very strong vanishing point formed by the cliff, beach and water very close to the frame edge, if not slightly past it that feels a little a little harsh to my eye . . . pulling it out the frame edge. That said, I don't know what all the constraints were, but imagine you were working with quite a few. The 35mm renders a natural perspective more like a "standard" 50mm. Excellent lighting on the cliffs to highlight the ridges and their interesting shapes. Also excellent color contrast between the warm tone cliffs with beach and the cool tone ocean and sky. Recommend working with the scanning if you can . . . to see if the slightly blown out portion of sky can be toned down a little. Looks like it's the scan or post processing of it and not the slide itself. As with Stephen Scharf, this is one of photographs for which the thumbnail gets my attention.

Comment left by: T.J. DeLaine (tjdelaine@covad.net)

Mickey, Great photograph! I guess tripods are "overrated!" Youwere able to capture a variety of textures and colors in the shot. I am not a great photo critic but I have felt that if you are out shooting and you enjoy it, that's the most important thing! Best Regards, T.J. DeLaine (Just learning how to point the camera in the right direction!)

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