Help me select a cover image

[urbpan]

I realize my last post was pretty overwhelmingly huge and full of pictures--not easy to look at at work, or at all if you have a dial-up connection. My question to everyone is this--if you are able to look at the pictures at some point--which image do you think should be the cover to the next Urban Nature Walk zine?

Comments

[rwblackbird.livejournal.com]

I like this one, as it includes elements representing the urban environment, nature and walking.

[rwblackbird.livejournal.com]

or the last one. Interaction with urban nature

[anais2.livejournal.com]

I like the last one, of the arm and hand stretched between the cityscape and the gull...it seems to symbolize the interconnectedness.
Just sayin'.

[messy-wreck.livejournal.com]

i like the 11th one after the cut...or maybe it's the 10th...
the one with the barnicles.

it's nice and uniform and bold text would look nice on it.

[wakarusa.livejournal.com]

this post - plus the fact that it is a nice, sunny, relatively storm-free day and so my dish is working as well as can be expected - prompted me to gulp and load the rest of your post.

And it worked!

I liked what the other comments mentioned - especially the theme about including some aspect of nature and culture (second nature, whatever you want to call it). Visually, I was very taken with two of the images from this perspective - that is a very strong black and white image that y'all have of the docks/ decomposing mussels. Also, I too like the bird/ hand one, but I would crop it, maybe to focus on the bird, the contact, and the sky.

Can i please ask what camera you all used? lens? filter?

[urbpan.livejournal.com]

Thanks for your comments. (that goes for everybody)

We use a Canon Powershot A85 (digital camera), on automatic settings.

[cottonmanifesto.livejournal.com]

I like that one too. I wanted to go with something that showed the human/nature interaction.

[cottonmanifesto.livejournal.com]

My cover idea:

[jess-d-ripper.livejournal.com]

I really like this!

[cottonmanifesto.livejournal.com]

Thanks. :)

[anais2.livejournal.com]

That is IT! Love the stop-action in the feathers!

[cottonmanifesto.livejournal.com]

Why, thank you. :)

[wakarusa.livejournal.com]

ooooo yeah.

[http://users.livejournal.com/_bazilisk_/]

If the cover is in color-the shot of the shells, just straight on, sort of a textural shot, is the best. If in black and white, then the shot of the gull, 3rd form the bottom, from behind, that shows the bird and the civilization in front of him, would be nice. My original instinct is to say the one that's not under the cut (that's a great picture!) but it would be really hard to fit the title and any information into that while still keeping a nice composition.

[urbpan.livejournal.com]

My original idea was to use the one not behind the cut (I even made a nice mock-up with the title over on the upper left). But since cottonmanifesto has gone and made the one above (with the hand-feeding), and she is the art director, I think that one wins.

[cottonmanifesto.livejournal.com]

Do you not like it?

[urbpan.livejournal.com]

I love it. I'm just taking everyone's responses in a measured way before weighing in, is all.

[cottonmanifesto.livejournal.com]

Oh, okay then. :)