Turn an Image Upside Down?

Image tuned upside down to give the viewer a totally different experience.

Sometimes it pays off to look at your images in a totally different way.  I made this image in Glacier National Park in Montana, USA last month.  I liked the image but I thought to myself, "Is there a way to make it more interesting?"

I thought about editing the image to be more abstract.  I thought about a conversion to black and white.  I thought about super-saturating the image.  I thought about turning it upside down.  Looking at it upside down really makes you have to think about what you are looking at.

The point I'm trying to get across is don't always accept your images as straight images in composition, color, form, cropping or shape.  See what your imagination can do to make them more interesting.  It is one thing to be a photojournalist or documentary photographer and have to produce "straight" photography, but it is another thing to produce "art" and fulfill your artistic intent and vision.  Once in a while you just have to go for it.

Original orientation as made with my D800E

Thanks for looking.

Dennis Mook

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