Hello there, here's a set I am posting more to share my discovery of an artist than my photography. I have even gone so far as to go all colour (I have not yet taken that road photographically) - a very important part of his work, I feel...

I was recently in Paris for a short visit and had the pleasure of seeing a very interesting exhibit in Beaubourg (Centre Georges Pompidou) contemporary art museum. I had never heard of Frantz West, an Austrian artist with a very personal take on art, alternately or simultaneously conceptual, useful, funny, serious, participative, beautiful, ugly... You can read about him here if you wish: link.

This exhibit will be coming to Tate Modern sometime next year. I urge you to attend even if (especially if?) you are wary of contemporary art concepts...

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For sure indeed. I have an M135 and I just don't know what to do with it. I simply makes me quite uncomfortable (which can be a good thing, if one can harness that discomfort in some way - I haven't yet).

#1 and #4 work for me here (#1 for the composition and the bird/underground story, #4 for the dynamic abstraction). I'll try to keep these in mind for inspiration if/when I put that lens back on my camera...

I'm in the "problem" camp with these, albeit probably not the same problem as others - I just feel my computer screen cannot do justice to these images, in which I sense great potential. I would really like to see these (even more than with "regular" images) in print. Not necessarily very large, but large enough to accomodate the immersion I feel they command.

Some seem to tend towards impressionism (1, 3, 10), some towards minimalism/abstraction (2, 11, 12), others towards some kind of alternate dimension of movement (4-9, the most promising set to my taste).

Something about viewing them on screen just hits me wrong for some reason - but oh how I can imagine the results on a smooth coton rag...

Yes, absolutely...

4-9 definitely hit that nail... and much more!

The one I like best also, I feel the others want to bring out too much of what isn't quite visible in the original.
Myself, I would probably go in the other direction and go for more of a silhouette... there is so much we can see and do with our images!

Both very well captured - The Mood is is present

Several of these remind me of your Hebrides set, and, like them, are quite beautiful and are the ones I prefer. In particular #'s 1 & 10 both have a ghostly line of swirling mistiness (probably caused by the receding waves?) across the frame that is quite compelling - I would probably get lost in contemplation of those on a good print.

#13 took a little longer to work for me, but that riverlet spilling into the sea finally spoke up and told me where to look (at itself of course). Lovely.

I like this too, for the geometric contrast between the branches and the overpass.

I might even have cropped out the water to better concentrate on that aspect - the image gets very dynamic viewed that way (IMO of course). However the water does bring a peaceful counterbalance to all that is going on in the upper part...

Good job.

A nice set, in which I would single out the more 'coton-y' ones, where the subject is no longer the landscape or townscape, but has become a mysterious 'mistscape' (i.e. 2, 7 and 10).

Very nice. You could make an ever-ready case for your camera with these.

Beautiful tones in that first image...