Greg wrote: << http://www.rit.edu/~andpph/gallery.html. In the frame of mind that anything is better than nothing, this is what I thought of the pictures. >> Having just visited the gallery I have to disaggree ... sometimes nothing is better than something not good enough!!! <<<Achal Pashine (Windows) - I love the blend of shapes and colors>>> Yup, they did look nice ... in a nicey nicey sort of way <<Dan Mitchell (Dragonfly) - Sharpity sharp. The background is a lot less blurry than I would expect from a shot like this but then again I don't use a digital camera. >> Spot on: bloody digital is the antithesis of quality - unless of course you are prepared to wait and wait and wait for the RAWs to download ... Sharp background? <<Antonio Cid (Essaouira, Morocco) overall softness of the image. >> Nothing wrong with a bit of planned softness ... <<Jim Davis (Red-Billed Coots Grown Up) >> Well, we call 'em moorhens over here. <<<I love the water ripples and the long arches of the grass. >>> No way. The out of focus blade of grass nearest the camera completely ruins this shot. Jim should have removed it before pressing the shutter. I guess having a digital camera has made him lazy ... planning to clone it out later. Love the ripples ... but they are th only part. <<<Alan Zinn (P-38 Lightning) - Very nice Alan. >> Yup, it is very nice. Somehow being shot to ribbons by a brave bloke in one of these is far more acceptable than being blown to bits by a cruise missile from a coward hiding 200 miles away in a submarine. Love the picture. <<Fred van Sand (Good Harbor beach) - It could be the sunlight but this shot has the look of old photos from the '60s where the color has shifted towards red. >>> Nah, the red shift just means it's a long, long way from here ... <<Jayanth Vincent (Raphsody in Blue) - I like that word 'raphsody' and I like the layers upon layers. Very majestic. There appear to be several relatively large dots in the sky. Do you know what they are? >> aliens <<Christopher Strevens, LRPS (Mars from my bedroom 13-9-2003 2:56 am) - Chris, it doesn't look like the mars they show in the Blue's Clues episode on astronomy where Steve sings a song about discovering Uranus, but I'll take your word for it that this is really Mars. >> I think the song went ... "I never will forget the rings around Uranus" Mars is supposed to be red: don't he have a filter for that? << My thanks to our philanthropic host A.D. and his industrious staff that make umpalumpas look like slackers. >> What: the lazy git could not even be bothered to fill up the spaces with some of his own archived images ... Vlad
