jon w.

October 29, 2003

I'm so glad I clicked on this, because the bricks aren't visible on the thumbnail version! I wholeheartedly agree with the comment above. The crop is arguable: you definitely need the text of the sign, the blank area below it is distracting, but possibly interesting because of that, because it suggests the solid brick above is 'floating' on nothing.

October 29, 2003

Another great image. Beautiful tones and rendering, effective use of the wide-angle lens, good match between content and form.

October 29, 2003

A bit too cute for my tastes, but nonetheless a beautifully chosen and rendered moment.

October 29, 2003

I think the blur works great. A fine example of creative use of digital possibilities, which I normally find extremely vulgar. Here the black background, and range of tones on the statue itself are both exactly right.

October 23, 2003

Great shot, imaginative framing.

October 22, 2003

Good - I like the selective lighting (flash? or spotlights on the statue). This is the best version.

October 22, 2003

I like the idea - superimposing a grid on the cityscape - and the light is lovely, but this is the kind of shot that's crying out to be taken on a larger format. The lack of detail lessens the impact, but still a good shot.

October 21, 2003

'Capture the soul of a big city'? This seems an impractical goal to me, but also an undesireable one. It assumes that the purpose of a photograph is to provide answers (in fact, summaries, overviews, generalisations), rather than ask questions, which on the contrary should be as specific as possible. (I don't mean by this that urban photographers should concentrate on tiny details.)

The question is: whose city is this, whose Paris? Why here?

October 17, 2003

Great use of intersecting / interlocking lines, surfaces, and colours.

October 15, 2003

I think it's a very clever rendering of the theme (or rather, subversion of the theme). I hope you get good marks!

October 15, 2003

Sorry, but this looks badly underexposed to me (or alternatively, if you wanted the moon, overexposed). Night photography is a genre in itself - have a look at Brassai's Paris After Dark, which arguably invented the genre.

October 15, 2003

It is interesting, Beau - good light and textures - but not I think as strong as some of the others in the sequence, i.e. maybe strong enough to be shown next to them, but not strong enough to stand by itself.

October 8, 2003

I agree that this one is the best.

October 2, 2003

Very clever use of reflections and 'interference' on the window, and the subtle, dark colour scheme is also a big plus. The subject is almost lost in the shadows, but not quite, which is appropriate.

October 2, 2003

Very eye-catching colours, intelligently arranged, and it's a great pay-off to discover that it was taken in a cemetary (the shadow cross is the clue, of course). Good work.

September 23, 2003

Very nice.

September 23, 2003

I wholeheartedly agree with all the above. Highly imaginative use of the 'grid' of lines combined with not one, but two subjects. Kids chasing pidgeons can be utterly banal, but here it becomes magical, and disturbing at the same time.

September 19, 2003

The subject is not original (few subjects are nowadays), but the treatment is striking. Good work.

September 1, 2003

All the same balloons? It's a clever idea, well-executed. A homage to Brassai's series on the balloon-seller?

September 1, 2003

Another marvellous puddle shot!

September 1, 2003

This is FANTASTIC. And I almost never resort to capitalisation.

September 1, 2003

This is also an interesting folder -and this shot is one of my favourites.

September 1, 2003

Could have been an interesting variation on the street shot. Two dogs on the left are fine, but we only get the back halves of the two on the right, which spoils it for me.