These are my heat stroke induced impressions of the Photoforum gallery as seen at http://www.rit.edu/~andpph/gallery.html. Janine C. Hanson (Fisherman's Dream 2000) - Great title and I applaud your asserting your independence by refusing to use the term 'fisherperson'. I really like this image. The panoramic format bothered me at first but you have used it well with the flow of the water stretching the reflected light into long streaks that originate on the fish's back. I like this image even before I noticed ther was a fish in it. I find this shot very pretty. Now how did you get the fish to stay in just the right spot? King/Arthur (Wiggleman Walk To X) - Absurd title and I applaud your asserting your independence by refusing to use the term 'Wiggleperson'. I don't care for either of the colors you have used but they do work well together. However I find it difficult to embrace this piece. I can't seem to find a starting point through which to enter the image (so to speak). Roderick Chen - Beautiful bouquet in a refreshinly high key background. I find it strange somehow seeing the person holding the flowers almost blurring into obscurity. That's probably due to my own tunnel vision. This is a very pleasing image with amazing control of DOF. jIMMY Harris (gREEN Spider) - WOW jIMMY! The cream of your entomological studies. To me the flash does not look so much like a flash as to be distracting. The first thing I did was check the shadows which indicate a light up and to the right of the camera just like the sun could be. In my opinion better than a ring flash in this case. I really like this shot with that freaky spider centered perfectly on the flower. Yay. Greg Fraser (Victoria Day 2002) - I like the way the wind is blowing the fireworks into a less than perfect umbrella. I think this was a 45 second exposure. I used a night shooting exposure guide I got off the internet and it is amazingly accurate. Brian Chandler (After Greg Fraser) - Ah the 60'. This reminds me of a really great screen saver called 'Organic Art'. I love the long strokes of brilliant pink accented by the lime green stem. I also like the way the lack of DOF renders some of the petals as translucent. Abstract, natural chaos - how could anyone not love it specially with that title? Christiane Roh (London, British Museum, April 2002) - Ah, there's that smooth toned, fine grained Roh I remember. Beauriful play of lines and angles, perfect camera placement and the two smaller window curves are answered by the one broad curve of the dome and the even larger diameter curves of the blocks in the wall below the window. A complex set of lines well organized. Very nice. Bob Talbot (Whitby Shop) - This is a tough one for me. I like the statues and the yellow stripe on the road (almost a trademark now) but I don't think the cars and sign on the road help. Did you need the 24mm lens to capture the sentinals vertically or were you going for long DOF? Either way it does look like an interesting place to visit. Andrew Fildes - I like the look on her face and her pose. They look very natural for her and she looks as if she needed to be photographed as you said. I don't get the feeling of an infrared image though. I think I would prefer the grainy b&w. D.L. Shipman (Barbicans with Barby) - Is it the palm trees that remind me of the cover of 'Hotel California' by The Eagles? This image doesn't really jump out at me and I'm not sure I like the sort of bleeding dye effect but I can look at this image for a long time none the less. That must mean I like it. Elson T. Elizaga (Operating Room) - Copyright notice much better. Image rather clinical (no pun intended). Operating room shots don't seem to thrill me but these images are very well done technically and more than just a record of events. This composition reminds me of a classic painting where all the lines lead to the center of interest. Are these shots staged? Jose Luis Vasconcellos (1/50s in Satchmo's life) - So why is that guy in the back so ecstatic? Well he's so happy his daughter (to his right) won the Decca Records 'Win a Date Satchmo in Paris' contest and he and his wife (far right) got to chaperone. He has decided to leave his underwear in the hotel when he leaves so he'll have more room in his suitcase for French postcards. His wife Estelle, is not so happy with the whole thing because this is the first time she's been out of Ohio, this is the last day and she hasn't even gotten to see the freakin' Eiffel Tower! And so ends another chapter in our lives. Greg Fraser http://www.geocities.com/fraserg1962
