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Lovely image Aileen! It's so powerful as a graphic element that it really teeters between the real and the abstract. Very well done! Cheers, Scott

I love the colour palette you've captured here Victor. Your composition does a great job in telling Vancouver's story, where Stanley Park is such an important part of that story. Well done!

Thanks for any comments. Overseas visitors, please forgive the north

american version of "splendour". Cheers, Scott.

Thanks for any comments! Please click to view larger. Cheers, Scott.

A second attempt at this shot. Thanks to all who commented on the first

one. Cheers, Scott.

Thanks for any comments. This is a second take on a previously

posted shot. I hate to lose my previous comments, but felt the need

to improve the shot. Thanks again, Scott.

Beautiful capture Phil! All my waterfowl shots are tossers, so it's nice to see such a great example. Lovely colours in the duck, and the water is electric! Focus looks tack sharp and great exposure control. Superb!

Beautiful light and excellent composition Sherry! I'd love to see a print of this just so I could soak in all the details a computer screen can't convey. Great lead-in line from the lower left corner, creates a lot of depth.  Well done!

Thank you Larry! Yes... the beach is a mix of black lava rock and white coral pieces. It was a bit of a struggle to get the beach to look right, without being too bright or vanishing into darkness. Thanks again for taking time to comment. Cheers, Scott

Oh...and please click to view larger. Cheers.

I think the pose and the lighting work well with this model, but I think you'd have a much stronger shot if you cropped in tighter on her alone, leaving out her knees, but including the rope hitch. The big blue shape to her left is outweighing her in the frame, and it's distracting. With a tighter crop, you'll have a nice image with 3 points of interest... her face, the rope hitch, and the yellow boat behind her, giving the viewer a nice triangle to navigate the frame with, while still giving us enough clues to create an environment around her. Optionally, you could blur the background boat a bit. The rim light on her works very well, and you've done a great job of filling in the shadows without losing it.  With a tighter crop you can go with a more subtle vignette, which will also improve the shot.  Cheers, Scott

Lovely shot Jeff! I love the strong interplay of colours between the orange of the sky and the blue of the snow. Great composition!

Thank you very much Mark for taking the time to explain that in so much detail. It's hard to learn unless someone is willing to teach. I hadn't thought about the neck pulling the viewer out of the frame, but you're right. I'm beginning to understand just how subtle the differences are for creating a great portrait. Thanks very much for your comments!

Great work Stephen! The drama you've created with the mono conversion is very effective. I think it would be an interesting experiment to crop off about the bottom 1/4 to 1/3 of the frame. I realize that would put the horizon about center, but I just feel like it might be more powerful that way. It just feels like the foreground part of the track is overpowering the shot to me. Regardless, great composition and use of lead-in lines, and great mono conversion. Well done!

Thanks Mike. It's a bit of a goofy shot, but fun nonetheless. Cheers, Scott.

Thanks Stephen. I was trying to give it the feel of torchlight. Cheers, Scott

Thanks gentlemen for the comments. Mike... I've been very impressed with the D10. It probably wouldn't compare to the equipment you've used, but for casual use in shallow water (where there's lots of light), it works great. It's supposedly rated to 30 feet, but at that depth you'd need some external lighting, I'm sure.

Cheers,

Scott

I prepared this for a self-portraiture photo contest. Thanks very much for any

comments and suggestions for improvement! :)

Thanks for any comments on how to improve this shot. It's one of my first

serious attempts at portraiture using off-camera flashes and softboxes.

Excellent focus and great lighting! Very well executed. I think the only experiment I would do would be to include some more of the green channel in the conversion to monochrome, just to darken her lips a little. I just feel like they are disappearing near the lower left corner (her left) of her mouth. Still, very nicely done!

Cute! Interesting to see a shot of this little fellow in such a different environment that where we usually see these guys. I'm tempted to crop more off the top and bottom of the frame, leaving a pano-aspect frame, but when I do then I want to crop the white area on the left side of the frame, leaving me with just the hamster, which isn't as interesting as what you've done.