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File:Two Arecaceae in the fields viewed through a hole in a tree stump in Laos at sunrise.jpg, featured[edit]

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Two Arecaceae (palm trees) in the fields viewed through a hole in a tree stump damaged by fire in Don Tao (Si Phan Don, Laos), at sunrise. Impression of a natural organic frame or window highlighting the main subject of the landscape. Droste effect and self-reference (recursion), poetically this picture shows two healthy trees like a rebirth through the carcass of a third one in the foreground.
  • Ok, thanks for the feedback. I hesitated with this close-up at sunset. That was my first photo in the evening before I come back early morning the next day before sunrise to take the 4 other ones, including this shot. If more opinions join your feeling, I may nominate the alternative instead, and maybe come back again to the spot for another full view with a more special sky (without guarantee). But here I like the stump well isolated and the deserted horizon, except the 2 palm trees inside. I will be grateful for more opinions. Kind regards -- Basile Morin (talk) 06:20, 16 December 2018 (UTC)[reply]
  • Taking pictures through holes (normally rocks) is an old idea, but why it's so brilliant here is that it looks like a magnifying glass. And the elongated portrait style with good lighting works really well. POTY potential. Charles (talk) 10:09, 17 December 2018 (UTC)[reply]
Fixed Top sharpened a bit. Due to the very wide angle, I was much closer to the base of the tree than to the top. But I think this part looks better now. Thanks, Jebulon -- Basile Morin (talk) 12:14, 20 December 2018 (UTC)[reply]
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Result: 30 support, 0 oppose, 0 neutral → featured. /--Ikan Kekek (talk) 07:31, 21 December 2018 (UTC)[reply]
This image will be added to the FP gallery: Places/Natural#Laos