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One nitpicky comment: I might have tried to get slightly lower (if possible), to both avoid the interference between the top of the large rock outcropping and the distant coastline (just above center), and to get the left side of that same outcropping to break above the horizon.

 

Nitpicky, I know. Beautiful shot.

Superb

I have almost the same pic with the same toy tank from the year before. (My wife's family lives ~500 meters from here.) I'll see if I can dig it out.

Nice photo. I would eliminate the white inner element of the frame and just use a black line. The way it stands, the wires seem to float in space. Not sure about the flying bird, but I think I'd leave it there.

I'm no prude, but she looks awfully young for this kind of shot.

Attached is another presentation suggestion, for what it's worth. Please excuse liberties taken.

I like this a lot, but his face seems to beg for a bit more emphasis. I've taken the liberty of, well, taking liberties with this. Would be interested to hear if you think it's better.

I've taken the liberty of playing a bit with this. See attached.

Not only can I tell how *old* you are, I think I can see what you had for breakfast... yesterday. Great pic.

Is there really a need to resort to cloning? Can't you just breed it out?

Fantastic shot, although I find most of the left edge distracting: wire (or whatever) in TL corner; orange chair; red tupperware; green wicker (or, again, whatever).

 

Attached is a crop for your consideration. I *do* realize that this version has its own problems. Maybe a less severe crop and some (time-consuming) cloning could render a better end product.

 

And it must be admitted that they're all quite enchanting.

Are you sure that's right? Even if you had used a tripod (which I assume you didn't), I find it hard to believe she could have held still enough in this pose to get a shot this clear. Great picture though.

Great, although, like Chris, I'd get rid of the goober over her right shoulder.

 

Oh, and ask her why she never returns my calls.

Nothing more to say.

This is a beautiful shot which I would be very pleased to have taken. There is something about the water that I find somehow distracting, but I can't tell whether I think the exposure is too short or too long (I lean toward too short). Also, is the horizon slightly bowed? Is this typical of Pentax 55s?

This is certainly funny, at least initially. But, like Victor, I find this quite disturbing, at least after (or in addition to) the initial chuckle.

The expression on the big kid's face would be funny if this were a Rockwell painting. Considering it is a photograph, I find it quite harrowing instead.

And the kneeling. I have to believe there is a workable version that includes kneeling / sitting / sprawling / reclining as well as standing takes, but with something like a balance among these. Here, the lower positions are too out-of-keeping with the over-riding posture. I find the dark horizontal bars distracting, too. (Normally I'm very fond of dark bars.) I don't understand their purpose here.

Having said all that, I like the concept very much.

Vuk is definitely a "tezak" SOB when it comes to rating (he'll understand). He is also a stunningly talented and original photographer, as one visit to his homepage will confirm.

From what I've seen, he tends to post photos here for reaction, then delete them relatively quickly -- a practice I fully understand and support, since photo.net has been deluged with clueless, philistine hacks over the past year and a half or so.

Still, there's no way in hell this photo can be given a 2, for anything. That's ridiculous. And I think the folder is superb.

Just my too-sense worth.

... there are things to quibble over with this photo. Still, this is fabulously successful as an experiment (which I, Sherlock-like, deduce from the tone of your comments as much as the, er, content).

[.. and the voice of Derrida rings in my ears like an i[a]c{h}[r]onic bell, pointing smilingly at the metaphor that lies (!) at the heart of the notion of "literalness": the notion that meaning is "contained" "in" "the letter."]

Which is to say noting -- "Nothing," he said -- about the supposed and apparent dichotomy between tone and content.

Sorry -- too quiet in here. It was makin' me nervous.

Nice picture. I wish the subject was slightly more right, to get more separation between his right shoulder and the diagonal beam. Otherwise perfect. Well done.

Sorry for the interruption.

Okay, maybe I'm shallow (my therapist always said I was), but how does one *not* look at a picture called "Model on beach"?

Near the top of the screen on my laptop, there currently appears the following comment: "Add a comment to This Was A Very Scary Cow I Saw One Day."

To which I feel compelled to respond: "No, I will not. I am commentless."

Great picture.

One of the most sincere portraits of one of our furry friends that I have ever seen. God bless Pokey, who assuredly deserved a better world than we have thus far managed to arrange.

Technically, Pokey deserves a better scan than this. The dust and specks are distracting. But it's clear that the photo is top-class.

Beautiful.

I'm actually very open to what I think you were trying to do here (or, if it was an accident, I think I could understand what you find interesting enough about this to post it here). Having said that, I don't think this quite succeeds. The child's face is clear enough to work even with the motion, but Mom's (?) face is slightly *too* distorted: you can infer "what the child looks like" (when stationary; as if good portraiture operated on the assumtion that people don't move), but the adult's features are gone.

I remember a fantastic blurred portrait that I've seen somewhere in the last year or so, but I don't recall where. If I can find it, I'll scan it and post it. It worked because it gave you a strong sense of movement without compromising the viewer's comfort at having a grasp on the subject's face.

Doesn't Carly Simon also have an album cover with a very effective blurred portrait? Or am I thinking of someone else?

I'm almost speechless (he said). Well seen. I also think you got the verticals just right, on a photo where this must have been an excruciating deliberation.