These are my improperly medicated impressions of the PF gallery as seen at http://www.rit.edu/~andpph/gallery.html Greg Fraser (Badonkadonk Trust) - From the location of this bridge, all one can see is dense woods and the narrow creek below although a well traveled road is only about 300 meters up a steep hill. This was an extremely foggy morning around 6:30 am. Three days earlier on an extremely hot and humid afternoon I was at the same spot and heard footsteps on the bridge. I came out from under the dark cloth to see a young man and woman stumbling across the bridge. They had gotten lost on a short nature hike and were on the verge of collapsing from heat stroke. The woman begged me to show them the direction out of the woods. Of course since they never even said 'hello' I sent them in the wrong direction. Hey, politeness goes a long way. Alan Zinn (Keats - Boston) - This image makes one realize that we are all truly beautiful even the gastricly challenged. On my monitor I cannot tell which direction this man is looking. If he's looking at the camera then he seems to have a robot face. Very cool. Robotic construction workers. I wonder if they are programmed to shoot nails from their nail guns at porta-potties when you're in them like real their human counter parts do. Hmmm...I wonder what kind of pranks robots would think up on their own? Bruce Weitzman - Can you really shoot Polaroids on TMAX film or are you saying this is a Polaroid and you took another shot of the same thing using TMAX? Either way, very nice lighting. One of these days I plan to set up some glass and experiment with lighting. How did you arrive at the spacing between glasses? It seems a little wide to me but I think if it was smaller then the shoulders of the glasses might ruin the shape of the negative space. Kostas Papakotas - Yes, very Madonna like (mother of Jesus, not the tramp of pop) except that the finger pointing makes me think he's picking tonight's date from the front row. Its a neat pose and I like the lack of definition in the background. Christopher Strevens, LRPS (Winchester Festival) - Not much of a crowd for a festival. It appears that you took this shot from your seat when you could likely have easily gotten up, moved to the center of the aisle and in my mind, ruined this shot. I much prefer this asymmetrical camera angle. The lower part of the image is weighted to the left but the ceiling balances it to the right. The ribbing on the ceiling reminds me of catacomb walls lined with human bones. Nice shot. Marilyn Dalrymple ("Me? You Want to Take Me Home?") - You've pegged my cuteness meter with this one Marilyn and in answer to your question - No, I don't want to take you home. It has taken me 3 days to recover from a party last Friday at a cat owner's home. At first I liked the balanced patches of colour from the plants, eyes and the rose but now I'm wondering if the plants and rose don't distract from those blue eyes? jIMMY Harris (Angel Rock) - jIMMY this is just bizarre and disturbing. Is this camera actually the size of a pen ? Did you put those highlights in her eyes to make her look more human? Those specks of light seem too small for that camera to pick up. Robert Carlson (Hotel) - Cool! Nick recoils in mock horror at the sight of the chalk outline of his deceased wife's body. In a minute he will be inside the apartment discreetly checking his airline ticket to Bora Bora. Officer Scrimshaw meanwhile surveys the scene looking upward for any signs of foul play while on the floor below Rosalita, toothbrush and thong already packed, shoots a memento of the event that finally allowed her and Nick to be happy in their tropical paradise. A real Rockwellesque slice of Americana. Great timing. Dan Mitchell (Cottages) - Ummmmm......nope. Perhaps its the black sky but I don't care for it. It does look digital though even though its not. Its interesting that you found a labour intensive, time consuming and far more costly way to achieve this effect than just applying a filter in Photoshop. That's the kind of thing I like to do just because I want to do it. King/Arthur (Three Pilgrims) - This is a great shot/print. I love the way the high contrast has turned the left most wall into graphic lines and how the woman's hat blends into the boards. I love the curving roofline shadow in the foreground and the washed out roof of the next building. I love the poses of the people and their placement. The way the left person breaks up the foreground and casts her own shadow and how the two other people are completely in shade. Roderick Chen (yellow) - A few squares of yellow, some brown highlights and a triangle of beautiful blue sky which to me is a way out of this stone cage. The yellow certainly draws my eye which is almost pushed by the diminishing columns at the right, but I end up hopping up to the sky where I feel more at ease. This is great use of the architecture and the decreasing shadows to force the observer into the shot. Really nice shot. Andrew Davidhazy - Grain reminding you of flames ironic? Perhaps its a premonition or simply pent up arsonistic tendencies surfacing. Either way, have fun with it. The two nail heads really make this image to me. Without them this could be several things or even a purely abstract design but the nails really provide context for me and make this an 'everyday object art' shot. Thanks to everyone for submitting this week. Greg Fraser
