Thank you DDB, giving a print a whirl to see if it holds up. - Bobbie (dandelion) On Mon, Jan 21, 2013 at 10:18 PM, David Dyer-Bennet <dd-b@xxxxxxxx> wrote: > My comments on this week's Photoforum gallery > <http://people.rit.edu/andpph/gallery.html> pictures: > > John Palcewski -- Subway -- Interesting, I get an almost otherworldly > feeling off this guy (too much Men in Black, or Harry Potter, or something > in my head presumably!). The rounded ceiling and the sign establish the New > York Subway location even though the shot is away from the tracks. Also > just as glad nobody seems about to die, so we don't have to worry about > that. > > Rob Talbot -- 53.139444,-4.275315 -- Nice colors textures and shapes, the > four types of stone or other block paving plus the shiny bent steel. > (Seems to be up in the far north of Wales; we only got to Cardiff and > Tintern back in 1987). > > Bobbi Blazy -- Dandelion -- Masquerading as some sort of insect, to my eyes! > Looks like one big eye, with mouth parts in front of it :-). I like seeing > an interesting photo of a non-perfect dandelion seed head. > > Dan Mitchell -- Snow Land -- Very nice frosting of the trees, over quite a > large area. > > Randy Little -- Successful exposure test! (Presumably not what you actually > were doing; I may have some prejudices on the subject of Polaroid :-) ). > > Bob McCulloch -- Storm at National Harbor -- Maybe this needs to be bigger, > or something. I feel the bridge, and especially the rather large boat, are > lost in it. (In a way that doesn't make me feel the insignificance of man, > or anything). > > Marilyn Dalrymple -- Cactus Flower: Brasilicereus Phaeacanthus -- > Interesting that they were so big; that scale isn't indicated at all in the > photo, which is more of an abstract of the form to my eye. And the detail > is too small to fully appreciate, I suspect, in this presentation. > > Jan Faul -- William Patterson House, Gettysburg -- Trying to envision this > with the things you removed, it's a VERY different picture, and I like your > choice to shoot for a reasonable approximation of historical appearance. > The curve in the roofline of the house bothers me (I haven't shot > rotating-lens cameras, but I guess that's probably an aspect of that?) in > that it takes my head out of thinking historically and leaves me thinking of > modern technology. And the texture in the sky looks very strange to my > eyes. > > Thanks to everybody participating in the Gallery this week! > -- > David Dyer-Bennet, dd-b@xxxxxxxx; http://dd-b.net/ > Snapshots: http://dd-b.net/dd-b/SnapshotAlbum/data/ > Photos: http://dd-b.net/photography/gallery/ > Dragaera: http://dragaera.info >
