Christiane - Lausanne Aot 2002 That one in the middle's a live wire, I'll bet. She seems to be really cued in to the world, which the one on the right's really interested in making sure his popsickle doesn't melt. I like the focus in the middle kid's body, and the way her girlfriend is working to see what she's talking about. These street grab shots are wonderful opportunities to get faces when people aren't preparing themselves. In this case a lot less depth of field would have really brought the kids to the fore, they wouldn't have had to compete with the people behind and that highrise and those three globes for the viewer's attention. Richard Cooper - Take Cover Interesting horizontals - the dock, the shoreline, the horizon, the brightness line, the dark above. There is a beach between me and the people in the water and there are lots of clouds in the bright sky area. How to balance these elements to make something really threatening.... This one doesn't quite do it for me. The dark bottom half is too much. Joseph - WOLs 4: the family Hmm. What's WOLs and why 4? That's what he's thinking. Everything about this pic is a mystery - why WOLs and why 4 and why superimposed text and why fill in the blanks and why family and why no face on kid in corner and why is big kid looking out at the viewer and are the visible people related? Guy - Montreal-Lachine Canal Ah, yes. This is what one learns to understand when one spends time shooting B&W and staring at the light table deciding which to print. I do like the balance here, and the sharp shadows on the building with the towers. Interesting to speak of the blackness of the sky because a change in the weather could eliminate that so easily. Whatever floats your boat, as they say. Christopher Strevens, LRPS (whatever that means) Those PS filters are lots of fun, when you're bored of an evening, but it's exceeding rare that they can be made to do much but look like filters unless one is being paid heaps to be an illustrator and knows the techniques the filters mimic. Best to reshoot if sharpness is what you wanted. Jimmy Harris's Mimosa pods I had a mimosa once. The marriage collapsed the first summer it bloomed. I moved out and cut the tree down so that the new woman wouldn't have the pleasure. There's something just not quite right about the color of these pods. I think it's the yellow ones. Too green or chartreuse or something. Aside from that I like the photo well enough. Not a rave, but nice enough. Peeter - behind the columns Is this what Estonia looks like? Or is this Rome? Must be Rome - Avvenire. It's amazing how urban environments grow up by bits and pieces without thought of how they don't go together, but on the other side with too much planning things don't have any soul. I like the brightness of the spot in the back, the contrast of the strong straight lines, mostly horizontal, with the curve of the pillared rotunda. So hard to reconcile the darks and lights here. Quite amazing there is anything at all of that apartment building in the space. Dan Mitchell - F7 Great blue, nice sharpness, a little unnervingly unlevel, I like the curved white lines striding across the image. Talbot's ripped ear Well, she's concentrating hard, but her ear sure looks like she needs to go home and nurse it. Glad I saw the ear first. Andy's leaping androgyne Study for a sculpture in polished steel. Interesting seeing how the shadows fall. Must have been tricky to light - barn doors? Or is this something you control with the printing technique? thanks to all. Let's have more reviews and a full gallery next week, especially while Andy's away in New York hobnobbing with all those pros! The program looked good and I almost went myself. But I hate New York.
