dberryhill

As usual, your perception is accurate. She is refreshingly open, honest, and fully engaged in the process of living. She does, however, get that posed look when a camera is pointed at her. So this required some patience.

Thanks. I tried to crop this so as to minimize the distortion. Sometimes I think we too often see only the flaws in our own work.

 

I have emailed you regarding the Oxford Project. Your guarantee won't be necessary. I'm keeping the book.

Thank you Sheryl. Mine too.

Thanks Mike. This is another one I owe to your curiosity. I posted a black and white version some months ago. I've always been frustrated by the distortion that curves the shelves. But it still intrigues me to wonder who in this poor mountain hamlet could and would have ordered this phonograph, and why someone would have kept the crate all these years.

Delivered to a small rural community in the mountains of East Tennessee.

Thank you Dave and Karolos. He was smiling at a child passing by when I caught this. I very admire people who keep old traditions alive.

 

Dave, I love the Oxford Project book! Thanks so much for recommending it.

Marvelous. So much more alive than a posed portrait.

Mike, I think all of us who have a passion for taking pictures absorb a bit of what we see when we view a fine exhibit like this one of Builder Levy's Appalachian photographs. In some way, perhaps small, the exhibit changes the way we view, and photograph, the world. You provided the opportunity for me to see this. I'm grateful.

I'm a bonehead for not knowing anything about the Oxford Project. I followed your recommendation and checked it out. Fascinated by what I read and saw, I've ordered the book. Thanks!

Sensual naturally.

As I hope you know, I am very grateful for your abiding interest in my pictures. But maybe that is particularly so here. This is one of my favorites, for the reasons you stated so well. The light could have been less harsh, and it might look better in black and white. But still, I think it does say something about our culture. Thank you.

You captured this very sad scene very well! I believe a good picture causes some kind of emotional reaction on the part of the viewer. This is a good picture. Please leave it up.

Christine, thank you sincerely.

You've obviously spent some time with my portraits, and for that I am most grateful. Your helpful critiques represent PhotoNet at its best.

Thoughts and suggestions - they're all good. Thanks.

No quill needed to leave comments. Thanks for looking.

I think this is marvelous - for a lot of reasons.

 

The woman on the right is far away from that bench. But as significant for me is that the two women are so far away from each other, in age, style, interests. They are connected only by the bench. I find myself wondering if there are insights and experiences they could share and be of benefit to both of them. But I don't suspect it happened.

 

I wouldn't change a thing. This is so very good.

I wonder how many who view this will remember Green Stamps. My mother saved them religiously, and I have a vague recollection that she got some pretty nice stuff.

 

I wonder what kind of business this was. I love the scene.

I didn't have a problem figuring out the body parts. This is one sensuous image. I love the tones and the light. Very nice!

Mesmerizing eyes. Another marvelous capture.

Mark is a friend and a superb photographer, but I don't share his views on this. These reenactments are exactly that - reenactments. They are done in modern times and in modern environments. I don't think we are pretending that our shots were taken during the Civil War. They weren't. So, the fact that aspects of modern life show up in the pictures doesn't bother me. I think this is a fine photograph, showing a Civil War reenactor at work, demonstrating how things were done during that war. That's good enough for me.

I fully concur with Paul - this is dramatic and compelling. I come away from it wondering if someone, somewhere might see this and say, 'Oh yeah, I remember when I was in that room and . . .

 

Very good picture.

It just makes good sense to take snacks when taking off on a trip.

 

A photographer with an attitude. All is not bad with the world.

She's a lovely young woman, but she has that "I've got to do this, but I'd rather be somewhere else" look. Sort of a bureaucratic numbness. Very nicely captured, as usual.

I really like how that pole soars and arcs between and above the two straight poles into the clouds. I also like the juxtaposition of the light fixture on the pole and the gas pump. Its a fascinating scene few would notice, and captured well. My nitpick of the day would be the halo effects around the poles. They could probably easily be burned away.