Comments on the gallery posted 7/23/2011 (The gallery of the week is
online at <http://people.rit.edu/andpph/gallery.html>).
John Palcewski -- Shadow -- Extreme treatments of contrast and
saturation; more extreme than Velvia even, it seems to me! The shadow
is fascinating, though today I tend to suspect it of being "art" rather
than straight photography. It's more interesting if it's straight,
though (in this case, to me; I'm not attempting to promulgate a
universal rule there).
Bob Sull -- Flash the nature photographer -- Not too bad a stance, but
tell him to tuck his elbows in more!
Rene M Hales -- New Mexico ~ Horse -- I like the shading interacting
with the coat, certainly. But the eye is more obscured than I like.
Emily L. Ferguson -- abandoned -- The variety of angles of the window
frames show the abandonment. They'd show it better if the bottom line
of planters wasn't clearly not square to the frame.
Rob Talbot -- Lover's Walk -- (mistitled in gallery, I believe) Not sure
what I'm looking at, ice or chemical crystals, plant leaves, or
something. I'm suspect hot ashes were somehow involved.
Christopher Strevens -- On the Serbian border -- That does look like the
viewpoint to maximize the amount of pavement in the frame.
Don Roberts -- Barn Scene -- The color palette is striking and the light
is rather nice. I don't find it busy in a bad way; I don't see a simple
central image that the rest of the busyness detracts from. Did you find
other images with that rope at the lower right more central? It looks
really neat.
Yoram Gelman -- Power Hungry -- Don't anthropomorphize heavy engineering
projects! They hate that! (sorry) Could effects suggest the presence
of "electricity" or something in the direction it's reaching, too.
Thanks to everybody participating in the gallery this week!
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