A late review of the images on the Gallery walls. What the heck, they're still up there...
Per Ofverbeck - Hammarlunda
Clean, simple, nicely composed. Strong graphic appeal. I would hang it on my wall. Minor quibble, there's some sort of dark speck in the sky (scanned original?).
Pini Vollach -
An interesting place--I'd like to fix it up and live there. A little too much distortion from the lens for my taste. Still, this and the picture from last week are thought-provoking.
Christopher Strevens - Junction Near Clapham Junction
Pleasant rendition of what I'm sure is a typical scene in your neck of the woods. I like the way the early morning light is reflected onto the left car. Leaves me wondering what it would look like if a person were crossing the street at that spot (after the cars had passed of course;-)
Emily L. Ferguson - Tatoosh
At first look I thought "oh no, not another one of those seaside sunset shots," but this one really works. The overall light is a bit subdued, not super-saturated like velveeta is today. I love the way the foreground shapes are echoed in the cloud background, as well as the two lights.
Achal Pashine - Golden Gate, SF
Interesting placement of the tree before the bridge support, perhaps you could tell us about that--it lifts it above the cliché moniker. Is it a comment on Man vs Nature? I note the empty bench and the perspective placing the manmade bridge lower than the hill and tree. Good composition.
WRGill - Sunset at Pescadero Point, Pebble Beach, CA
This one is more like a cliché. It would be nice for placing sappy gold greeting card type over the lower left corner, but doesn't do much for me beyond that. I would like to see more separation of the shadows too, so perhaps it's a little underexposed (or under-manipulated).
Scott Thurmond - Blue Morpho (morpho didius)
Beautious butterfly. Where was this and how was it lit? Was it mounted on a card, or was that added later? I'm having a hard time seeing the borders of the image because my browser's background is white, making it hard to see where your composition begins and ends. And yet that is making the viewing all the more interesting...
Bob Talbot - Evidence
Inspector Talbot on the trail. I can picture you making plaster casts of the footprints and calling in a forensic specialist to examine the excrement.
Next week: Printing the likely suspects. A line-up with your cat on the other side of a one-way mirror... "Yes! Number 3! That's the one! He did it! MURDERER!!"
The week after that it is found out that the cat framed the bird due to a long-term argument over territorial rights.
Laurenz Bobke -
Yes, not the best scan. How are we to judge it then--orange blob with dark corners?
Shawna Hanel - Blue Dot Center
Interesting choice of titles. At first I thought it would have something to do with the old Sylvania Blue Dot flashbulbs. Anybody remember those?
I like the study in blue. The triptych made it even better.
Jim Davis - Is This the Matrix?
Great moment. You really need to invest in some longer glass though. It must be incredibly frustrating to have to crop, fix and manipulate so many pictures. Think what you could do with a 400mm f2.8 and a teleconverter.
Veli Cigirgan - Looking out...
Contemplation, maybe. I know, it was you who was looking out, but it seems a reference to the contents of the picture. Perhaps an irony in that it seems she is doing anything but looking out. And what a shame with such a lovely view before her--maybe that's the point?.
Do you have a problem with your digicam, or are the white spots sharpening artifacts of some sort?
Cheers,
Rich "better late than never" Mason
