> The PhotoForum members' gallery/exhibit space was updated MAY 21 2005. Authors > with work now on display at http://www.rit.edu/~andpph/gallery.html include: Of the bunch presented my (*) favourite by far was "sunday Drive" by Gregor Frazier. As Vlad noted off-list though, being the best might not mean much if thuer is no competition, but hey, learn to live with it. OK, to answer Vlad's concerns (and avoid a personal experience of "the Impaler" part of his name, I'll expand the comment to say what I like about this image. 1) it's clearly taken by a discerning photographer - it's a film camera. - it's monochrome - it's not quite square 2) it's clear. - the window into Gregor's mind, or perhaps we should say "crack"?, is all there. His vision, equally distributed between his left. unaided, eye and the view of the world through the camera. His priorites in life: himself, first and foremost, his kids (represented in this case by just the daughter) and everything else (the world) out of the frame. Since he's in the driving seat though, should he be osing the camera while driving? 2) it's composed The out-of focus" vanity" mirror provides such a well placed frame for Gregor's world. I have a strange thought of it half resembling an out-of-focus art-deco toilet seat - and a lead-on thought of "his ambitions for fame and stardom going down the pan". 5) it's CRAP Nope, I really like the image. It's refreshingly different (from the others in the gallery) and it does not leave even a small part of me thinking "I've seen it before", or "I know the formula". It's pictures like this that make me view the gallery (and download all the images to sell on pirate clipart CDs :) each week!!!! > Jeff Spirer - Cup > Peeter Vissak - Cap on the pavement It was curious these two were next to each other Jeff is usually the master of abstraction yet on this occasion he's been outdone. Jeff's picture for me, aside all it's pattern and composition, lacks any kind of message. "there is a hand so what" is all I can come up with. Peeter's though has an Egglestonesque feel to it. The cap and the path, in themselves, are again just pattern but the inverted shadow of the tree fading as it approaches the cap, gives it a feeling of time and place. I'd have left the whole of the cap and it's shadow in the frame - Eggleston would for sure have left the link to what is outside. > Jim Davis - Sparrow Parents At first I had trouble fusing the two images crosseyed - the one on the right is slightly higher in the frame (a flaw for 3D imagery). I corrected that in PS and then was able to fuse the two birds. It's a novel technique: having pseudo 3D images from different bitds but it still, curiously, worked and had some depth. > Pini Vollach - What I really like about Pini's is the bit of window top left where the rigid lines are replaced by flowing curves. Without that bit of contrast it wouldn't interest me much. Bob * "My" implies personal opinion not a statement of universal truth.
