Some comments on the February 18, 2012 gallery. > John Palcewski > Break John, much of your work has a voyeuristic tone, and this is no exception. Instead of being interesting and intimate portraits, they instead feel invasive and prying. What are you trying to say in this photograph? > Dan Mitchell > Snow path A lot of blown highlights here; snow is like that. I like the frost on the tree; you might be able to crop off perhaps a third of the picture off of the right and still convey what you wanted. > Sherie Taylor > Sunrise A picture that was probably much more interesting and picturesque in person. These type of landscapes are difficult; a foreground object helps. The bridge and the people are helpful, but the rest of the frame seems empty. You also might try some cropping and horizon straightening. > Emily Ferguson > breaking up I like this quite a bit. I don't know what it is (perhaps ice floes breaking up), but it doesn't matter. The picture pulls me into the frame, the tones are muted but clear. > John Retallack A nice picture for the folks involved, but except for appreciating the stitching job, I don't know how someone else would enjoy it as much as you do. Somehow, you also managed to get the right side of the table to be smiling, and the left side to be dour. > Bob McCulloch > Goldenrod A pretty scene, well exposed. The trees vie for my attention, because they are evenly spaced, and I would have mistaken them (or the framed mountain in the distance) for the subject, had you not titled the photo. Perhaps a lower angle so that more of the goldenrod was in the frame (giving the viewer the feeling that they were in it) would help. > Michael Hughes > A belated Valentine from La Belle France A cute posing poster for a (somewhat risque) tourist couple visiting France. I'm wondering why the faces are not totally black, as they would be if this was somewhere set up for photography; somehow, I think I'd like the photograph a little more if they were black (but as it is reportage, I understand why you'd want to keep it this way). And I'm also wondering what a fellow copping a feel and a girl (Dame, French queen in a deck of cards) raising her dress have to do with crepes. :) Andrew
