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Interesting house.

Not so interesting picture.

So so. The pose is compelling and the composition is interesting; the execution isn't so great. I think the shadows could have been worked into something more dramatic and the biggets flaw, she doesn't look so sharp to me.

Long time since I've checked you out on here John.

As always; quality work.

Great score Peter.

You & your clouds . . .

70-200mm f/2.8 lens at 70mm.

1/125 shutter and f/6.3 aperture.

Obviously, panning.

Thanks for the comments.

For a
project called. 'Love my Body'. It's been suggested that it isn't dark
enough at the higher edge. I disagreed. I need a general consensus.
Thank you.

I don't usually shoot or follow cycling, except the ToC for three years in SacTown. And I was looking at the wrong 'Starting Order' list (the one for Solvang, not Sacramento).

=P

From
recent Time Trails of Tour of California AMGEN race in Sacramento on
Valentines day. I'm not positive, but this may be Tom Peterson, who
won the second stage a few days later.

Interesting dialog here.

The white spots in the image are a little too high key for my tastes, unfortunate, as otherwise it had potential.

I like it. Even the wide angle distortion works well here; enhances it really.

Congratulations Jane.

It's a good picture and makes good use of available light on a cloudy day, but I don't feel the 'experience'

Viscerally—and the hair really makes little difference to me, it just feels like the costume that many kids have made of dreads, mohawks, et al—I'm just not feeling it. I am also bothered by the wood she is leaning up against for the obvious reason.

On the other hand we are here to discuss and on that note they picked a dandy.

Incredible capture.

On that note I'm not at all a fan of oddball cropping.

I hear some of the comments about the eye darting all over the picture, and this may be true. But as long as your eye stays within the frame of the image what can be wrong with this?

I find myself looking at it from the top and flowing down into it. Then the three sharpest poppies kind of compete for my attention, with the upper most one holding its own against the two that gang up and try to pull me away. In any case none of this is a bad thing. Because what you are looking at are three significant examples of a poppy.

Even what lies in the background is a sort of supporting cast, each of them playing their own unique role.

To me this is a fine example of composition of a well-placed grouping of poppies. If you've ever seen a poppy field this is exactly how they grow.

Thank you Juan.

You are probably right. I'm used to looking at a b&w print where there isn't really a full on blown out area like here. With the scan some of the tone that shows in the print is lost.

Further experiments with a no longer available
skull . . . Comments appreciated

Lucy, age 4
years.

Sure, you can use styles and all kinds of other html tags.

Fire on the Mountain.

Cold.

Dark.

Foggy.