Very eye catching. I like bold colors like this. Perfect composition.

Very beautiful treatment a subject which deserves it, in any case for me. Bravo. Greetings.

Thanks both for comments ;-)

Absolutely beautiful work!

Oh, yeah, motion has really stopped here for a moment! Great perspective, great lights, great compo, great colors and tones, great relevance - a great photo!

Thanx for sharing it with us.

Perfect shot,his arms just made him look like a bird.Great timing !!

Just wanna say how much I absolutely ADORE this image. Beautifully rendered.

Wow, excellent !

perrouges ? :D
nive picture, but i don't like the color

Yes Perrouges ! ;)
Maybe no colour would suit better.

Quite good angle and sorry Antoine I like the colors ;).The "vigneting" is soft and textures are great , well done Hélène :)

Really nice post process, good composition.

like this a lot. great use of textures. and the coloring is perfect.

I agree, the texture really adds something special to this shot, though even without it it's a great image.

I like the gradient blue and of course the texture as well,are u working with Photoshop ?

The texture of this is very interesting to me. I can safely say that I wouldn't have put it over this image, but I don't exactly know why. You made it work. The color, the contrast.. composition. It all just works. This should be up on a wall with a beautiful frame, in many, many places. Well done. I have a new favorite.

love this!

Thanks for your comments and criticismes

Perfect in this "Topic", nice frame as well.
Well done lol ;)

Thanks Eric !

I love the minimalist feel to this work.

I love the perspective of this photo.

I actually like the atmospheric haze. I think it adds to it. Good shot. I really like it.

What a place for a bench....great view and shot!

Just the right place with the right subject.

Awesome capture.
Really wish I knew where that was!
Would be a great getaway spot!

Thanks for the kind comments. :)
The place :
Italy, Corvara, on the Pralongia.

Bravo mon ami !!!

merci beaucoup Pi ;)

I bet this would look awesome in b&w as well. Very dramatic image with an incredible sky.

Nice blue sky, the soft red tones all around are also cool. I think that this picture fits in the backlighting, too.

To me, this image is really powerful. It shows how "uphill" the battle of everyday life can be, and how the person has to be prepared for it. Every morning is a new day. You're able to start over, if you so choose. This is a wonderful photo.

Really nice Post-processing, perfect for me. Well done Adrian

Amazing !

Proof that sometimes detail is overrated. Great picture.

simple, créative, like a painting,using of light,perfect: I love it

Artistic.

Very nice photo. I would like to have seen a bit more of the reflection of the flower. I also would have liked the flower not to be cut off at the top. The details in the petals are great.

The picture is indeed very sharp and detailed. Only thing as said above is the cropping that needs some tending to. The reflection is a critical part to show an additional texture in the frame. Very nice processing and lighting indeed.

Nice detail in the flower petals. I like the angle and the lighting too. IMHO this photo would go from good to great if the flower wasn't cut off at the top. Love the reflection. Maybe take the pic again with a little more of the reflection showing too?

As rblue85 said maybe with a little more reflection it will be better.Regards

I like it the way it is. Only thing, IMHO, if you could remove the distracting dark marks on the main petal on the left. love it.

Understood Willie - I was going by the definition of this particular topic on this site which is "Create an image where your subject is the strong point of the image, but only occupying a very small portion of the image space."

Sher,

You are correct!

I must say that this Topic's definition of minimalism is unique to this site. I know of no other art history definition or art classification/taxonomy that discusses minimalism as defined in this Topic.

In fact all other examples of minimalism really don't have subjects!

For instance: "Minimalism - A twentieth century art movement and style stressing the idea of reducing a work of art to the minimum number of colors, values, shapes, lines and textures. No attempt is made to represent or symbolize any other object or experience. It is sometimes called ABC art, minimal art, reductivism, and rejective art." (www.artlex.com/ArtLex/m/minimalism.html)

And:

"Minimalism, New York, 1960s, Though never a self-proclaimed movement, Minimalism refers to painting or sculpture made with an extreme economy of means and reduced to the essentials of geometric abstraction. It applies to sculptural works by such artists as Carl Andre, Dan Flavin, Donald Judd, Ellsworth Kelly, John McCracken, Robert Morris, Richard Serra, Tony Smith, and Anne Truitt; to the shaped and striped canvases of Frank Stella; and to paintings by Jo Baer, Ellsworth Kelly, Robert Mangold, Brice Marden, Agnes Martin, and Robert Ryman. Minimalist art is generally characterized by precise, hard-edged, unitary geometric forms; rigid planes of color—usually cool hues or commercially mixed colors, or sometimes just a single color; nonhierarchical, mathematically regular compositions, often based on a grid; the reduction to pure self-referential form, emptied of all external references; and an anonymous surface appearance, without any gestural inflection. As a result of these formal attributes, this art has also been referred to as ABC art, Cool art, Imageless Pop, Literalist art, Object art, and Primary Structure art. Minimalist art shares Pop art’s rejection of the artistic subjectivity and heroic gesture of Abstract Expressionism. In Minimal art what is important is the phenomenological basis of the viewer’s experience, how he or she perceives the internal relationships among the parts of the work and of the parts to the whole, as in the gestalt aspect of Morris’s sculpture. The repetition of forms in Minimalist sculpture serves to emphasize the subtle differences in the perception of those forms in space and time as the spectator’s viewpoint shifts in time and space." (www.guggenheimcollection.org/site/movement_works_M...

However, your point is well taken. I didn't follow the instructions! I realize I was in error to post images that do not contain subjects in this Topic. I was so excited to have venue for my minimalistic photos I never read this Topic's description. My bad.

After you have a chance to read this I'll delete these images.

Regardless of the definition of minimalism here or elsewhere Willie - it is how YOU interpret it yourself. Dont let me (or anyone else for that matter) ruin your excitement! If YOU feel your photo pertains to this topic, then it does. I might offer that you yourself suggest the topic of "minimal art" or something named as you feel appropriate, and put your own definition there. That way when your topic is voted on, you will have the venus for your photos! Please don't delete your image here. You have started a wonderful conversation and I would hate to see that lost!

beside definitions: I like this picture and the sort of minimalism in it.

I agree with willie 901 about the definition, it kinda stumped me too! However, I'm going to disregard it and use willie's, and also mine, idea of minimalist and comment to that idea. So, in this regard, this image works for me as three bands of colour showing some texture. I like the idea of it.