Hi Bob, That mini star-fish is a dried flower; one of those tiny things, and it was hanging there by some invisible remnant of a spider web. The Human Shape - sorry about the confusion, but there is no face there (I hope we spent a long time looking... :) ), just (part of ) the shoulder and neck, and that only if the image is rotated.. really it only is a leaf... I guess I was just too-o subtle with the title huh? :) :) :) I agree about the bright triangle, but I needed that angle-of-view to get the mirroring of the shape of the foreground leaf with the background leaf. Also in the slide, there is some detail in there, and it isn't quite so distracting. About the clipping, that was intentional though. Nowadays I find that clipping things off shapes kind of 'extends' them beyond the picture itself... I guess I am trying to break with some of the rules I've gotten familiar with (deliberate placement of the mini-star-fish in some wierd place, clipping things off the frame, sometimes not being on the level...) to see if I like the results... Deen At 2002-11-16, 22:08:00 a Bob wrote: >Deen Hameed - Leaf >Well, I try to make human shapes out of plant abstracts and they get >mistaken for all sorts ;o( > >I can't see the face though - its just a leaf. >What is that mini star-fish doing on the leaf? >The background and cropping could be better (clipping the top of the >far leaf was clumsy and the bright triangle top right pulls the eye). >However much I look though it's still just a leaf - at least it's not >sugar coated. >
