Tears In Heaven (View Larger)

Thanks for viewing and for your critiques/comments/ratings.

Incredible work. Viewed larger makes me feel like I'm enveloped in this magical place. I especially like the streaming water (or is it sand?).

What a joke guy.  I knew who you are btw.  It's ashamed to see you purposely diminished the beauty of its image by keep giving it a rating of 3.

If you are man enough, why don't you just give it a reason as to why you think this image deserves a 3 rating?

Also, if you can't take a decent image like this, then it's better off not to give it such a low rating at 3 as you have been doing currently. 

I will not delete any of the images even with your low rating of 3s.  The intention is not how high the rating is but what I can share with those out there who also have the same interest like I do in photography.  Obviously, you are too narrow-minded to see beyond that.  Shame on you!!!

This is another beautiful image, with such beautiful tones and rose shades.  Wonderful processing of your shadows and light.  These places amaze me with their beauty.  I love the title, it suits perfectly.  Thanks so much for sharing, Gail

I have posted over 1,500 photos on this service, and some of them deserved '3' ratings and others surely did not but got one or two anyway.

Of those that did not deserve a 3 or anything near it, I have made a very, very few complaints to abuse@photo.net which is the sole arbiter of such things.

Mainly the abuse moderator(s) is/are are looking for robots (bots) which are designed to spoil the system or other people who are just 'spoilers' themselves, and when they review ratings, they often have come back to me with explanations like 'your photo is a 'street scene' and this person likes flowers.  Thus no change.  That is sufficient reason for rating a world class street scene everyone agrees is a 6 or 7 with a 3 for one person.

Perhaps this person likes street scenes and has no use for slot canyons?

Of course it's quite absurd, but it's quite a waste of time worrying about such things. 

With experience, there'll be lots of solitary and undeserved 3 ratings; some will be retributive for something you said or did, or even from someone who posted a similar image and thought it was MUCH BETTER!

There's really no explanation unless one makes a complaint to abuse@photo.net, and with rare exceptions, their explanations are not very satisfying, as just about any coherent reason for making a rating will suffice, since really there are no objective standards for ratings.

In a way it's kind of a shame . . . . but in a way it's also kind of liberating.

You know you can post the best photo in the world and it may get a 3 rating, and there's really little you can do about it.  You may just have to live with it; it's a reality of posting on this service and submitting your wonderful photo here (with an excellent interpretation of a quite common but always beautiful theme) to the minions, some one of whom may just be saying 'no more slot canyon photos and so I'll give just one more and each one after that a 3 until they stop being so common.'

Phooey to such an individual.

It's happened with bird shots, macro shots, and other genres from time to time over the six+ years I've been here, and especially with nudes, which have been a special target of rating snipers.

You've been sniped.

Your photo is wonderful.

You know it, and you shouldn't really need the rating of one solitary misfit to cause you to have upset.  Instead, consider that individual the object of wonderment and maybe some pity.

I had a a wife who had an uncle.  He was brilliant but he only got attention by doing stupid or bad things -- he had horrible judgment and always was getting into trouble by breaking rules.  He was a teacher, and if he felt like taking his kids to the ice cream store near his school without 'field trip' permission with parental releases and signatures, well, that was what he did, until his Administration just got tired of his game and eventually fired him for cause (he was really sick, but too proud to apply for disability).

Some people thrive on negative attention; your railing at such a person, only feeds their sense of negative self-worth and provokes more such 'acting out' I think.

Or it just may be a rating from that guy who got caught between rocks in a slot canyon and had to cut his arm off, now soured with slot canyons no matter how beautiful they photograph (an hour or so a day).

Life's short. 

You took a wonderful photo -- world class.

Don't let the buggers get you down, or they'll gang up on you.

Remember this service is about enjoyment of photography, and ratings are a very distant number in the pantheon of important things, especially because essentially anybody can give anybody almost any kind of rating without sanction provided they don't make a steady practice of downrating everybody all the time.

Best wishes.

john

John (Crosley)

An amazing and beautiful capture. As soon as technology catches up, we'll be able to listen to the sound of your capture as well. And then, a cool canyon breeze in the face: is it dry or damp?. Until then, reviewing your photo album is an adventure for all of us as you take us there.

It would be great for those of us getting back into or starting digital photography, for you to, on ocassion, detail out the specifics of your set-up, shoot and back story.  Not that you should reveal all of your secrets, but to share the artistic and technical skill you have mastered.  Possible?

 

Special one!!!  Wish I could.  Love it.  Thanks for sharing.