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Great work, Marcel!

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My #1 is 'ever-winding ditches'. The way the curves of water and pathway flow into one another.

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Lovely work Marcel, and a fascinating project.

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I find some of the photographs meditative and calming.

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Thank you Shital. Not intended this, but glad this resonates with you.

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I love the darkness of these images - its really interesting to follow your process in documenting and story-telling before you make the edits.

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Thank you for the mention, Marcel! This question might sound a bit weird, rude even but it is just curiosity: why are you sharing (unedited) photos from a project you don’t know the concept of yet? Does it help you to understand more about the motivation behind it? Or what is your motivation for sharing? I am asking because I sometimes work on something without knowing where it might lead me to, but I usually don’t share anything before I figured it out. Would love to understand the idea behind it…

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Very good question, Susanne. I think I will put my answer in next Tuesday's newsletter as it is an essential part of why I started Darkrooms in the first place. My curiosity on how we as photographers work. So if you can have a little patience, next week we can hopefully have a discussion on that.

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Great! Looking forward to it!

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I think the first frame is my favorite. The large negative space on the bottom of the photograph creates a nice compression of the sky above, which add to the moody scene. Nice set, Marcel ! Thanks for sharing :)

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Thanks Alvaro. When I first saw this bridge I had this song text by Transatlantic in mind immediately.

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love the leaving the path picture

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Thanks Wesley. My favorite as well

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The photo of the lonely sailing ship is absolutely spectacular. Wonderful! Those must be Frisian cattle, yes?

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I like it too. Not sure if it is a 'Friese Kotter' but I guess so.

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Thank you for sharing this project. It looks very interesting. I like the high contrast look. Your horizons are not level in two shots. This ruins them as it’s a basic error.

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Thanks Chris. Bit sloppy indeed to post them like this. These images are straight from the camera. I edit only after I actually select them for the project.

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Sometimes the "horizon" is not level in a photograph, because it is not a level horizon. A horizon is not always straight across even where we might perceive it should be.

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I’m specifically talking about the horizon over a body of water which really should be level.

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