http://www.rit.edu/~andpph/gallery.html
Marilyn Dalrymple, Shadow in a frame:
Enigmatic and beautiful. The "black hole" in the upper left corner does disturb (or is it part of the enigma?)
Russ Baker, Deb:
Wow! A most date-worthy lady, indeed... Seriously, not a type of picture I usually like much. Had the subject been a young girl, I would have found it glitzy, almost "cheese-cake-ish" (if that term isn´t too antiquated today). Now, we meet a mature, alive, and quite humorous person. Disarming and refreshing!
Jim Davis, Great Reed Warbler: As usual from Jim, a stunning bird pic. Would like to hear it sing...
Bob Talbot, Spiderettes:
Lovely colours, and a background that´s almost too perfect to be true (just kidding). A true work of art from what most people would see as just a clump of goo.
Margaret Lucas, early morning lobstering:
Nice, muted colours, one can feel the wet, cold morning. Somehow the composition doesn´t work: the sunrise should be in the pic, and the boat heading for it, or... What if you hadn´t made him turn? That said, if this is your first submission, I´m eagerly waiting for more from you!
Emily L Ferguson, approaching the windward mark:
I´m seriously jealous of Emily for her access to this type of subject! We do have a few beautful old sailing boats arund where I live, but every time they´re out, they´re completely surrounded by ugly, plastic speedboats and other floating junk. This is a dream picture! The sepia is OK for me as is; if you want to experiment, try the duotones or tritones that come with Photoshop.
Rich Mason, Grain Bins:
Reminds me of some of Art Sinsabaugh´s work, only in colour. And the colour is important here! The image breaks all conventional rules of composition, but the colours and the different textures make it work.
Jim Snarski, Out of Kenya:
Honestly, great backdrop with a ho-hum foreground. Too many, too small, and too overexposed giraffes (I´m quite aware of the difficulties of safari photography).
Trevor Cunningham, Red 7:
A lovely abstraction, harmonious colour, interesting texture, and good composition. Possibly the lower right triangle might be burned down to match the upper left one somewhat better.
Don Roberts, Hierve el Agua:
Interesting subject, but for me there´s too much irrelevant matter in the picture. I´ve taken the liberty of cropping it and also raised the contrast (quality suffers greatly, since I had to work from the downsampled version shown. Please disregard the ugly artifacts.):
http://ofverbeck.se/foto/Extras/droberts-1.jpg
Paresh Pandit, the pole:
I like this one! Very good, only thing is that the highlights might have gained from some more detail.
W R Gill, Wildflowers and Driftwood:
Another good one. The unsharp, thin weeds in front of the piece of driftwood might have been removed. Acually I like the small triangle of water.
In all, I feel this has been a very good week; obviously everybody felt challenged by Andy´s desperate plea last Friday... :-)
Per Öfverbeck http://foto.ofverbeck.se
