well well...since i do not submit photos these days, i guess i'll have to at least review this week's gallery... so, without reading any of the earlier reviews, and to my limited abilities, here is what i have to say for the photos that klicked my eye... boy! have we got a colourful gallery this week! Janine C. Hanson - Fisherman's Dream 2000 hm...dreamy enough, and a good combination of transparent blue and earth tones...length to height ratio was well chosen. a good one even if a bit abstract. King/Arthur - Wiggleman Walk To X nice pick of colors, but it is too abstract, and i dare to say jumbled, for me. no way i can understand what it is, let alone the title. Roderick Chen - untitled in my PC the connection downloads the photos in strips starting from the top. so the first impression was "what a nice bouquet", but when the hands appeared they added a feeling of gentleness and maybe frailness to the already delicate coloured tulips. that and the still shallower DOF at the flower stems make the pic different from the rest bouquet captions. well done! jIMMY Harris - Green Spider wow! black, rose and green, set in a way that encapsulates the tender and innocent petals around the dark and the ugly.marvelous composition. but i would much better prefer if there was more of the spider's body contrasting with the rose petals.but you know if that was possible. BTW...if any one of you thinks this is ugly, i wonder what you'd feel about a spider under a x36 lab maginfication...brrrrrrr! Greg Fraser - Victoria Day 2002 nice try and timing Greg,and i do like the fact that not all of the firework is visible-it amplifies the fireworks' sense of "light out of nowhere", but personally i do not like the bottom of the picture. it may function as a reference point, but it disturbs my kind of height/length photo balance. and you have quite a strange hue of blue there. acceptable and "explorable". Brian Chandler - After Greg Fraser i've got mixed feelings about this. colours are interesting, but i get the feeling that it is a too complicated form and to shallow DOF. sorry it does not speak to me. Christiane Roh - London, British Museum, April 2002 ah! straight breed of an architectural record/teaching photo.good framing, though a bit too tilted, and i know all about that shadows...they ARE disturbing yet unavoidable. Andrew Fildes - untitled nice trick, it aproximates sepia toning. and the grain in her hands fit the tired look in her face. good depiction of the subject at its moment. Elson T. Elizaga - Operating Room well... too directional a light, too dark the surgeons (we are accustomed to lighter tones) but it distracts from the view of blood (which for a rare indeed time, i find hair raising. brrrrr!)maybe it is a function of the small lighted area surounded by dark...too effective. that's all folks....bye bye! _________________________________________________________________ MSN Photos is the easiest way to share and print your photos: http://photos.msn.com/support/worldwide.aspx
