You know Jack, I really hope that someday you learn to become a better observer and the only way to do that is not to be so literal in every comment or mote you make. You do this over and over and it should be obvious that your complaints about my works and those of others fall on deaf ears. I am not listening and I’m sure the others aren’t either. Why waste your breath?
If your commentary had some pithy comments about composition other than to say that Bob should have been closer to the lighthouse are pointless. Ideally, it would have been great if Bob had been closer, but if he had been he would have been in the Atlantic. Nubble Light as it is called, sits on a small island at Cape Neddick. The cape is a promontory sticking out into the Atlantic and it has become a tract of summer houses. Even if Bob has been standing on the rocks at ocean’s edge, he would have been more than 100 yards from the lighthouse. According to Google Earth, the waves lap on rocks at 118 yards. I was as careful as I could be at Nubble Light, but I did not go to the water’s edge. A stiff wind was blowing off the sea, and spray was being thrown well into the parking lot.
Dan’s Ice Cream Man is indeed a nice shot of a guy who is about to be in trouble with his ice cream. To be honest, I would rathe be in King’s Lynn or Wisbech today than here. Spalding is nice too, and the people have a lilt to their ENglish.
I know we find our shots where we can, but today yours seem pretty cheap Jack.
Jan
On Aug 17, 2013, at 10:49 AM, John Palcewski wrote:
Dan Mitchell, Ice Cream Man. Pleasant character study that suggests
a warm summer with plenty of free time to goof off.
Bob McCulloch, Low Tide at Nubble Light. Seems to me the unremarkable
rocks in the foreground take away from the much more interesting
lighthouse in the background. A competition that the rocks can't help
but win.
Art Faul, New York Blues. This has a certain visual appeal, but don't
see anything that suggests either New York or Blues. The whole thing
would be greatly improved by removing the title, name, copyright
notice, and web link.
Art Faul
The Artist Formerly Known as Prints
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