Flying a kite...some more...

Fearing I already know what your answers will be, that this image is upsetting your state of balance, does it do anything else to you? Does it bring in the tension that existed at that moment? Does it bring together the sky, the ground, man and kite?

What do you think of it? More crop, for fear of losing that sky?

Thanks in advance.

Great catch, Kev. Personally I think it engenders a feeling of "being suspended" from the kite, which implies passive/static. Rotating the image back to "normal" for me gives it more tension/dynamic.
Would the lens have allowed for a full horizontal shot with the man & kite still in the image?

Thanks for the comments. Yeah...that kite was zooming back n' forth, up n' down, faster than you can say, "Cheese!" I tried both my 70=200 and my 17-55 and it was an effort to get those two together in a frame. I'll hunt down another image and see if I can come closer to what you mentioned. The sky quality changed dramatically, so in some images the cloud layer was particularly drab.

Here's another in the series that levels the field.

I like what's goin on in the first one, like the man's struggling to keep his feet on the ground and keep from being blown away, but the framing in the #2 is way better IMO. I like the B&W treatment as well.

I generally don't like angled shots but in the case of #1 it works quite well for me. It fits the image. The only thing I might try is cropping from lower left up, maintaining the ratio.

Very nice shot and good conversion.

That looks like quite a workout! Nice job in capturing it!

I think it does do all of those things and better than the second.

Actually the more I look at it, the more I do like it, the angles work together very nicely, particularly the clouds - lots of triangles 9or implied triangles) which help the tension as well. I don't think you'd want to crop it from the left or top, it doesn't work as well.

One of those images that I think, 'wow, I'm really glad I looked at that'.

i like the first one. Looks like hes really trying to hold on there. And the angle helped i think

Thanks everyone for your commentary. The gent emailed last evening so I will be sending him a mixed series or color and b&w images, including these two. The first one here is a bit risky whether or not he likes it, but since it's about him and his passion I suspect he will be pleased.

So my network expands a person further and perhaps some paying work will follow.

Well, my customer is happy. Of all the images I sent him, the one I posted opening this thread was his favorite. Funny how breaking some rules, while following others seems to make a scene standout.

Thanks all for your comments.