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December 27, 2006

Very nice portrait, Bobby.

February 7, 2006

Yes, the Foundry folder is very nice- beautiful light.

November 17, 2005

The exaggerated DOF effect is great (like MF or LF within a 24x36 frame), as is the sharp puncture of red against the waning Autumn light/sky.

November 17, 2005

I love the muted tones, somber feel, and generally stark treatment on this. I think it captures Autumn quite well. One of the more interesting cloud pix (although beyond face value, this is far more than but a mere "cloud pic") I've seen in a very long time.

November 17, 2005

Gorgeous, Larry. I like the painterly effect.

November 17, 2005

Like something out of David Lynch's "Lost Highway!"

November 9, 2005

Nice story, sad. This is perhaps my favorite photo in your portfolio. The grain, slight softness, shallow DOF, and motion blur from the slow shutter speed are all great. A terrific first street photography effort.

September 26, 2005

The color, light, moment captured, and model are nice, but the photo doesn't appeal to me. A 50mm lens with approx. 1.5x field-of-view crop = aprox. 75mm, and gauging from how much the subject proper fills the frame, it looks like the photo wasn't taken from close range, and hence (for me) intimacy and immediacy are lost; I feel like a detached observer, almost a voyeur, sitting a cafe table or two away. Personally, I think the photographer would have had a stronger picture had he used a shorter lens and photographed closer to his subject, or even if he had used his existing 50mm lens to shoot his subject as a head-and-shoulders photograph (which would have resulted in a vastly different photograph, but which I still think would have had much more impact than the existing photo).

September 26, 2005

Good composition, too, BTW.

September 26, 2005

Good Malecon photo, very unusual. I don't think I've ever seen it so striking and so dilapidated, all at once.

September 26, 2005

Good photo, John. I like the colors, mood.

September 23, 2005

Beautiful light and tones here.

September 23, 2005

I like this one lots.. my type of photograph.

August 31, 2005

Heh, agreed- this is an interesting photograph.

August 31, 2005

Beautiful shot.

June 29, 2005

Stylish!

June 25, 2005

Ralph, this is a beautiful photograph- very delicate. Perhaps it gets overlooked because 1) it doesn't have any people, and 2) urban landscapes are hard to "understand."

This is actually one of my favorites of yours (and I definitely think it should be on your web site!), which is surprising even to me because I enjoy your people photographs so much.

June 22, 2005

Enigmatic image. I quite like it!

May 31, 2005

Juarez! I like Ciudad Juarez a lot and made a couple (read: two) of nice pictures there myself. Sadly, it's supposed to be a really dangerous town for women (and Mexican women specifically), as I'm sure you already know (lots of abductions, etc.).

May 31, 2005

I think you have a unique opportunity here. "Street photographers" in the places you mention (NYC, LA, SF, Chicago) are a dime a dozen. New Mexico (and the Southwest in general) is a special place-some of my favorite photography is from that area (Stephen Shore "Uncommon Places," Richard Avedon "In the American West," Nick Waplington "Truth or Consequences")-and not very many people shoot it. I look forward to continuing seeing what you get out of this unique subject (and contrary to conventional wisdom, it might not be a bad idea sometimes to take a few steps back to give the photos more context). Try giving your subject (New Mexico and its inhabitants) a special treatment instead of trying to re-create the "big city" street photography with New Mexicans simply acting as stand-ins for New Yorkers.