the shuttered eye

Why the h*ll would I care if you are inspired? Did I ask if my gallery inspired you? Did it occur to you that it might not be set up to inspire you (I think that would be obvious to virtually anyone with half a brain, being mostly image quality comparisions). I asked for comments and suggestions on this particular image as I thought it had some different characteristics and some feedback from others might be useful. Instead of providing insightful and constructive comments and suggestions in the spirit of photo.net you thought a a broad sweeping, misplaced insult was more appropriate. What happened, did you wake up on the wrong side of the bed? Did your charming wife scream at you today for being insenstive? Why then, Mr. Grant Meyers, would you, out of the blue, spew this unprovoked nastiness? If that is all you are able to contribute, go back to your gallery of trite, cliched, and boring images and keep your insults to yourself.

Besides the digital effects being VERY cheesy (almost cartoonish) and overwhelming the photographs, The "kiss" between the two high schoolers looks like 2 people uninvolved, almost gritting their teeth while they regrattably, stiffly, and dispassionately touch lips like the photographer told them to. The guy just can't wait for the shot to be over.

Even the soft forcus on the photograph is over done.

Any comments or suggestions?