Inspired by the PF Gallery as seen at http://www.rit.edu/~andpph/gallery.html, I begin thusly: Roderick Chen (flamingo) - Another non-capitalized title. The soft everglade lighting is beautiful as is the contrast of such vividly plumaged creatures as these wading in the mud. I like the composition of the three closest birds whose heads are visible. The fourth guy in the back doesn't work for as do the headless torsos on the left. Also very nice is the way the body of the largest bird is set off by the feathers of the bird behind it. I suppose I have mixed feelings about this one. Janine C. Hanson - What an amazingly luxurious looking plant and a beauty of a composition and lighting. I so much wish I could lay down in the folds of this plant. Including as much of the larger leaves as you did really gives me the feeling that this plant goes on forever and probably also has a lot to do with my desire rest upon its leaves. Great image Janine. jIMMY Harris (Neighbors?) - This description is curiously similar to last week's description which immediately makes me suspicious. That aside, the lighting is really quite good for such a highly reflective subject as a slippery frog. The leg placement of the frog makes him look really relaxed but I just wish I could see his feet. That's not meant as a criticism. Its just that I have a thing for feet. D.L. Shipman (Series #3 Card #17 Tarpon Springs February 2002) - Wow! My monitor is a high contrast flat panel and boy is this image saturated. All I can think of is blood. Blood in the veins of the leaves and flowing out into giant pools. I realize that on a properly adjusted monitor this would likely be quite stunning but on mine it reminds me of a massacre scene. King/Arthur (Tense: the historical present) - This image has a lot of things I wouldn't ordinarily like, like the magenta cast, the blurry figures and the washed out sky but put together like this I kind of like it. Perhaps its the scene that I like. The older woman passing on traditions while the young yuppie mom uses her son as an excuse to listen to the woman. The foreground is occupied by the woman and the stump of a once great tree now a chopped down symbol of what it once was. The line of the figure's heads rambles up and down like the fence which surrounds them and the horizon behind it. I am confused about the space behind the woman's chair though. Perhaps this represents her independence from the environment whereas the tree stump is helpless to remove itself. Cool. Christopher Strevens, LRPS (Buro de change) - Now what does this misspelling mean? I don't really care much for this effect. I think I would prefer the straight photo. Greg Fraser (Summer Evening) - My daughter's $2 sunglasses resting upon a textured glass patio table. I took this because I was interested in the light and the table. Later I found that I really liked the pattern of lines and the one curved line from the chair leg. David Small (Nine) - Many symbols do I see. Number Nine from the white album? But this nine (in reality) is red? Certainly not white or even black. The one legged man on the right looks like an extra from 'Planet of the Apes' which is from approximately the right time frame as the white album. However, this ape is much larger than the woman and in the movie the apes were all hunched over and thus shorter than the humans. I'm not getting a clear impression from this image and I think that's due to my aversion of cities and the crowded feel I'm getting so I should stop. Bruce Weitzman - Well I'm not sensing anything here except that this man is at work and appears to be so familiar with the photographer that this almost looks like a self portrait. Peeter Vissak - I absolutely love the lighting and composition of this shot. There's a really cool line that goes up the man's chest and continues up the side of his head to his ear which forms a cross with the handle of the pitch fork that points to the fuel he feeds to a raging fire. The heat is apparent from his dress and the sky is full of heavy smoke tinting the sky the color of the truck in which the man stands. He's not just watching the flames but surrounded by them and a part of them. Great atmosphere. Richard Cooper (Greetings Stranger) - I'm really drawing a blank here. I don't understand what the title means and I'm not really getting any vibes from the image. Kostas Papakotas (for sale, obscenity included) - I would not know that there was any obscenity on this house unless you had mentioned it so I assume that the relationship between the graffiti obscenity and the nice house was your subject. However, my ignorance of this term makes me look at other things such as the way the lines of the house are all leaning and the parallax forces me to look at the almost ethereal house next door and away from the tree which drives me up to the top of the frame. I hardly notice the graffiti and perhaps that is your message. The protest of the graffiti artist is inconsequential compared to the lure of an otherwise attractive home. By the way - do you know what was meant by 'traitor'? Oh, that's it. Thanks to our contributors this week for sharing. Greg Fraser http://users.imag.net/~lon2251/Gallery/
