Stuff on display at http://www.rit.edu/~andpph/gallery.html include: Trevor Cunningham - dahab mosque http://www.rit.edu/~andpph/gallery/cunningham.html <<this is one of my first attempts at the cyanotype process...doing this in egypt is not as easy as one may think, although the sun does shine more often than not...digital scanning does not do it justice...any thoughts? >> Clearly you should go digital - this just shows how poor the resolution of traditonal processes always was ;o) I know amost nothing about Cyanotype - perhaps Terry A King will comment on that. This presentation has an aged look, apart from the loudspeaker on the tower. As a historical curio such pictures will always have a place. Don Roberts - As They Passed http://www.rit.edu/~andpph/gallery/droberts.html <<Since they were communal, most things were owned by the society. There were no family plots; each person was given the next grave site in the line as they died.>> As with Emily's picture next: I don't want to comment on this as if it was inteded to be pictorial; alongside the text it's a snippet of micro-history. Is there a differecne between communal and communist? Were they persecuted under McCarthy? As a picture of graves this does not have the impact of those war graves from Nothern France Maybe there is too much space between the tombstones. The levels look a bit washed out on my monitor. Emily L. Ferguson - Prayer flags http://www.rit.edu/~andpph/gallery/ferguson.html <<Additional details: A quick shot with the 10D just to show the conclusion of the project. They look kinda nice, if I don't say so myself!> Becuase I've read the background to these flags I can't look at this as a "pictorial" of "artistic" shot. It's more a record of completion. In that sense I wish you had zoomed in tighter on the flags. OTOH, the woodwork of the building has me wanting you to zoom out so I can see the architecture: those wooden verandas are not common in the UK. The flags sure are fun though. Tim Holmes - Castle Geyser http://www.rit.edu/~andpph/gallery/holmes.html <<This image was taken during a Kodak photo walk in the Upper Geyser Basin at Yellowstone National Park. The backlighting of the subject was the focus of the discussion at this particular stop in the walk. Image has been cropped in Photoshop CS>> I have to get a bit "picky" over the last sentence: does it matter whether an image was cropped in CS, Paint Shop Pro or IrfanView? Does one program crop pixels more kindly than another? I always think the same when I read descriptions that say "Gitzo tripod", or Leica ... Most of the time the make/model of the equipment has absolutely no bearing on whether the shot as presented works or not. It's almost as if saying "Canon D1s" somehow is there to seed the viewer that the author is a "pro". Or maybe I'm just bitter and twisted because I can't afford CS and have to present all my images cropped in PhotoShop 5 ;o( Dang, lets get back to the shot: it's about backlighting? This picture does not say that to me. I like the geyser, the foreground and most of the background. Looking at the crowds I'm gueesing you don't have much control over where you can stand to take the shot: ie you can't go closer. It leaves me thinking I should go to see a geyser before I die. Such natural phenomena are a reminder that no matter how powerful we think we are the forces inside the earth, or of nature in general, could at any time bring us down Christopher Strevens - John http://www.rit.edu/~andpph/gallery/strevens.html Why do you do this to me Chris? This looks like it would have been an interesting portrait: that was until you started messing it about. The chap appears to have an interesting "character face". The presentation - almost as always - leaves me cold. I guess it's just "different strokes for different folks" (as they say in the coronary care ward ;). I do wish I could see before and after on this one though. Bob Talbot - Launch http://www.rit.edu/~andpph/gallery/talbot.html Well, the title was almost "waiting" but I remembered having used that one before for something totally different What I remember was the water was bluddy cold and I only had a basic wetsuit. Ours was the last of 4 boats to be launched: later that day one of my diving buddies got picked up in a helicopter from Mullion Cove ... Happy Christmas: is there a seasonal gallery this year?
