michael_medwid

Comments welcomed - the bitter and the better.

I really like the lighting in your picture. It yields smooth tone transitions. And your girl is not overly "say cheese". :-) Nice and natural. Not chopping off the top of her head in the picture would be the main improvement IMHO. Was that intentional?

Critiques welcome - the bitter and the better.

Thanks - here the cropped version..

Haha - I left the white area on the left because I am learning from good pointers like that one (and some laziness.) I just hadn't thought about it. :-)

 

Here's a corrected version..

Wow..from a 2/2 to a pair of 6/6s. If you hate it or like it I'd appreciate hearing the why's of either. No offense is taken for a drubbing - really!! :-)

Haha..I hadn't noticed the world was tipped to the right! Thanks.

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Comments appreciated.

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Comments welcome.

I think it conveys a nice sense of solitude and the silhouette works.

I never knew Tarzan had to be careful not to lean against the trees. Else he'd get bitten by one of these!

Taken in Manzanillo Refuge on Costa Rica's southern Atlantic coast.

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Thanks Gary. Does this work any better..

At a farm near the Los Angeles cloud forest in Costa Rica. Comments

welcome.

btw - the treehouse we stayed at was..

 

http://www.costaricatreehouse.com/

We stayed in this amazingly cool treehouse. The walls of the main living space and bathroom were completely open to the jungle. So it was like one big nature observation port. One morning the boys had climbed up on the bathroom counter to watch the big colorful crabs that were common and they announced the sloth which was on the ground at first. The sloth was just a few feet away. So hiking or effort required. :-)

Three-toed Sloth in the wild in Punta Uva Costa Rica.

Submitting again after advise to crop the image. No changes in

lighting or other.

Nice creamy tones.

I appreciate constructive comments. Thanks.

I only got two shots of them and both were on this side of the trees. I early had seen one on the beach rolling in the sand like a dog. :-) But no photo of that.

 

Regarding the plants and all - I just had to take what i could take. They don't take orders too well. One thing I like about the plants in the foreground is that there's a 3-dimensionality. But the criticism is well taken. I enjoy this site and getting to read a lot of critics and getting to see a lot of good and bad pictures. :-)

Nice shot!

Thanks Rakesh. The horses are domestic and owned by the folks in the town on Manzanillo. But they are allowed to roam free on the beach and on the roads.