The following are the impressions I received while sniffing freon and viewing the images at http://www.rit.edu/~andpph/gallery.html. John Mason (Andy and Jeff/Summer Concert) - Fabulous composition and to think you got that without posing them is astounding. Perfect focus, lighting, exposure. Simply marvelous! I love that one shaded eye and puffy cheek coming around all that polished brass while the foreground subject is heading off to other things. And I can't even really see you in the tuba reflections. Roderick Chen (jazz) - I find it amazing how often the same general subject will appear in numerous photos in the same week. This photo is every bit as good as John's and both portray a definite mood. I get a real sense of night club lighting. You have the perfect amount of blur here. I can still clearly understand the photo but at the same time everything is in motion and indistinct like my impression of jazz. Great composition with the horn coming in from bottom left, the subject's head coming down from the top and both of them anchored by his left shoulder coming up from bottom right. Great shot! Greg Fraser (Passage) - Yes, its rust. I was interested in how the upper section appears flat but is actually curved and follows the corner created by the two lower pieces. Personal taste I guess but I'm into those perspective riddles. Marilyn Dalrymple (Desert Blooms) - Every time I look at this it looks to me like someone has stuck souvenir Japanese paper fans in a Yucca plant. Those really are amazing flowers. I like the way the left most shoot works into the tree at the left and I like the cool blue sky behind the sun-bleached foreground. A cloudy day would look better to me as far as the plant goes but then that blue sky wouldn't be there. I'd really like to see a close-up of a flower though. Kostas Papakotas (battle of the beasts) - I really, really like this photo because my mind can so easily travel up one boat and down the other. Sure they're almost mirror images and the association is blatant but I get a kick out of looking at this photo. Perhaps it's the up and down motion I like. jIMMY Harris (Prickly Pear Cactus) - jIMMY I feel you did get in too close. The shape of the petals behind the stamens looks really interesting and I think they would add a contrast in form and more color. Your focus is prickly sharp as usual. There's also a bit of glare off the petals that a polarizer or even some kind of light diffuser might have prevented. I like the way the center of the flower is towards the bottom left and we are not looking dead on into the flower. It's more of a pose than a scientific shot. Dan Mitchell (Plastic Sea) - I like the high contrast composition but I must say I would prefer the left plastic-free line to extend further down the left side of the frame. I prefer to not see the details in the plastic though. I see a really interesting abstract in the thumbnail but the larger version presents details I don't want to see. Jan Faul (Malvern Hill, nr. Richmond) - Very cool how all the weight is on the left and trickles through the tree line to the right until there are no more trees and just empty field. I also really like the smaller wagon in the background. Originally I though it looked too close to the hub of the foreground wagon wheel but it looks as if moving the camera would upset the rest of the balance so I can live with it. I really get a feeling of waking up early in the morning under a wagon soaked in dew as the sun begins peeking out from behind the spokes of the wheel. Ah, memories. Very nice photo. Alan P. Hayes (Study for Buick-Oldsmobile Reunion) - Very nice stitching Alan and an interesting image formed by all the angles and markings in the pavement. I would like to see it sparsely populated with VW Beetles (original version). Emily L. Ferguson - Well you have certainly captured the 1/30sec, hand-held, extended zoom look but with a water shot like this that may be what you were after. The composition doesn't quite make it for me and I struggled with a similar shot yesterday. It looked simple when I spotted it but it took 40 minutes of tripod fiddling and I'm not sure it worked out. Anyway that purple rock is very interesting and I personally think cropping closer to that would yield a better composition because that huge boulder bottom right seems distracting to me. King/Arthur (Is that King or Arthur, or King divided by Arthur?) Wampanaug w/ tourist - There is a strange connection between this man and the giant blue hat bottom right in the frame. I don't know what to make of the relationship but I find it interesting enough to keep me looking at the photo. Nice cropping. Thanks to everyone for submitting this week. Well not really thanks to everyone but thanks to those people that submitted an image. Greg Fraser London, Ontario Canada http://www.geocities.com/fraserg1962
