Here are my comments on this week's gallery. I'll repeat my usual disclaimer. These are merely my opinions, expressions of my personal preferences, worth only as much as the coins inside my nearly empty piggy bank. Jim Davis - Storm Over Fuji City An impressive image overall, and the only thing I can think of to improve it would be to dodge the lower part just a bit so as to bring out more detail. David Small - Naked Cowgirl A disturbing and sad image. It seems like a violation of privacy--or something vaguely illegal!--but then she obviously had made the conscious decision to stand in public and attract attention, like that young, handsome, muscular man in his Jockey shorts who parades around New York and calls himself The Naked Cowboy. Guy Glorieux - Three colors That's Houston, all right. A cold, lifeless mass of steel and glass in downtown, surrounded by a maze of highways and bumper to bumper traffic. I'm projecting, of course. Bad, painful things happened to me in Houston a long time ago. And I remember those skyscrapers. Nice image, but...Ugh! Others will doubtless have a different reaction. Dan Mitchell - Country Cottage This soothing, pleasant scene might be improved by burning in some detail in the white of the cottage. Alan Zinn - Canopic An interesting image, but there seems to be too much going on, which feels like a competition for one's attention. I go from the girl to the dark basalt statues in the background, and then to the blue reflection in the glass, to the girl's camera. Canon? Or Nikon??? Hans Klemmer - Girl, Amritsar India A beautiful image, which I imagine you probably wished was shot with a stop and a half more exposure. But then better to get it on the fly, as it is, rather than not at all. Emily L. Ferguson - spring morning If it were my image, I think I'd spend the time and effort in Photoshop shortening that long stick in the right foreground. Otherwise a most pleasant scene. Yoram Gelman - Mist in Patagonia Seems like too much white in the upper right. I think the shot would be entirely more successful if you cropped in to include only the lower left third of the image. Andrew Sharpe - Boronda Lake, CA Lots of interesting movement in a fine composition.
