Contrast and Compare

The two images from the blog initially came off as very different to me, but the more I studied them, the more similarities I could find. For the first photograph, I was pretty confused as to what I was looking at. Because I couldn't really define the objects I was seeing, I sort of just let my eyes take in the whole scene. There doesn't appear to be a single focus to the picture and I found it kind of creepy, metallic, and cold. It doesn't have the organic feel of the second picture and I imagined that it was an image from some far off planet. The bright misty light pouring in is more ominous than heavenly and I find the image generally unsettling.
The second photograph is much more wild with a majestic feel and a sense of grander. This one also isn't directly focused on one thing, but your eye is definitely drawn to the bright, plummeting waterfall. So though I find one kind of creepy while the other one is more grandiose, they are very similar in the sense that there is this harshness about them. I think it's mostly due to the fact that they are black and white instead of color, especially for the bottom picture because it just has such high contrast between the black and white. Also, both images feel unreal to me, sort of strange and heavy. This is probably because the water in both images is misty and ghost-like and not really like water at all.