Square Format Experiments and rant - advice welcome

So I find myself trying the square crop - initially just for fun. And then I find that I like it more and more. It brings to the images a "quietness" (for lack of a better term) that I enjoy immensely. Maybe, and I'm going on a limb here, because I don't have to "read" the image anymore, from left to right, or from up to down. With a square, I just look at it, and take it all in, every dimension at once. I guess the ancient Greeks' obsession with "the perfect forms" isn't that far fetched after all.

I'm attaching a few. To look at, and to comment if you feel like it. Do you feel the same? And if you know more, would you share?

[spyglass]

I like the square format (like Huey Lewis and the News said "hip t be square"). There are a lot of people that cling to the entrenched print sizes. The only problem I see with none conventional sizes is finding commercial frames. If you find frames a problem, mount them on Foam Core board (Staples carries one 24x36 that has an adhesive on one side). The square crop really plays well with your first shot (similar shapes square & rectangles)

[khardur]

The first and last are the best two by far (in my opinion)

The tilted ocean makes me feel weird. I do like the square format for certain things though, had a picture from inside a tunnel that turned out very nicely in a square format.

[Heinrich Lohmann]

I still like the square format, for many years thats all I shot. (Rollei TLR) I'll agree with Dan, the first and last one are my favourites as well. The tilted oceon is not my cup of tea.

Take care, Heinrich

[weatherwise2]

I like them a lot. 1st is my favorite esp for the square; the other could have gone in a rectangle and still be okay.

[Timbuctoo]

I like square format a lot. If you do a series of 6 related theme shots and mount them all on a frame together it looks even better.

[m8o]

Ya, I'm not a crop snob either, but I'm new to all this so I don't have much skin in the game. I crop whatever does it for the particular photograph. A square crop won me a weekly challenge too once; I was worried about how it would go over, but it was accepted well.

[xs400]

Those shots are all very nice. I really like #'s 1, 4, and 5.

Reminds of when I used to shoot square pictures as a child with an old Kodak. Those were the days, no meters, no zooms, real point and shoot cameras. Man, I am old!!

[Bramela]

Nice shots! Very well done. The sea running up hill, does nothing for me, sorry too say.