'Dogs' Tired (II)

Feet sometimes are known as 'dogs' (such as in 'rest your tired

dogs'), and these feet, worn by street handbill distributors in Kiev,

Ukraine, are no exception. Note the touch of 'fall' with a maple

leaf on one foot. Your ratings and critiques are invited and most

welcome. If you rate harshly or very critically, please submit a

helpful and constructive comment; please share your superior

knowledge to help improve my photography. Thanks! Enjoy! John

It is funny, indeed.

I originally thought of exchanging some ideas on these 3/3 raters, but then I realised that they are not so important to care about.

Best,

lar

Which one is which.

I'll bet you can guess.

The color blue is so radiant in this one, I would make it a candidate for Nikon's literture, but the D2Xs is being phased out, so they're undoubtedly getting new images for their literature from their newest camera, the D3 and/or the D300 and paying pros much money to make shots with vivid color.

On the vivid color issue, this is about as vivid color as I've ever shot, and it contrasts well with the dull background (and the leaf is a touch of great luck -- it was there for about a second and I released the shutter just to 'catch' it there.

About the 3/3 raters -- might even have been an uncaught 'bot' but usually somebody steps on board of a photo is really good and gives it a high enough rating, averages, climb, more see it, and then such a photo enters the mainstream.

That never happened with this photo, but I do NOT consider it a failure by any means.

I think you don't either, for which I am thankful (and respectful of your vision, which seems to coincide very much with mine.)

Anyway, as Cartier-Bresson said about himself, I can say about ratings 'Bullshit', and he's probably right.

I've taken some of the most memorable photos of my life (and the most unusual) in the past few weeks.

With me, it's always something new -- I just point my lens at whatever's interesting.

My best to you.

John (Crosley)