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Like this very week in Chicago. The very elements beating down on you - agonizing heat together with relief of cool spray & drink. GREAT summer shot!

"Don't mess with me - I've been around a long, long time and have seen alot of life. So you be quiet and learn something" This face - filled with wisdom and years, speaks a powerfull message. It's a powerfull photo!

There is something about the foreground, that is the water - it's blackness, allmost like a slate marbel top, and, alittle further, the whiteness or effervescence. Interesting facets to an otherwise simple yet compelling scene.

This photo has a fruity aroma to it.

Certainly interesting as well as captivating, but would be even more interesting/captivating if I knew what this is of, and where. 'Course it doesn't matter to some.

It's certainly pleasant to look at, good composition and all that, but sorry - the colors don't look real, but hey, that's what people like these days.

This photo, looked at from a distance, has "1940's-ish" feel to it. I like it.

"...or suggestions as to how it can be improved upon..." Well Gordon B, how does one "improve" upon a spur-of-the-moment grab shot like this? You see it - you take it. Quick, simple. It's gone in a nano-second. It's not a flower. It's not a landscape.

You "experts" with your hyper-criticism, nitpicking this/that/etc. Why don't you all go OUT of the house on a miserably cold winter day and still come up with something like this - you couldn't ! This is a very good photo. It does alot. Tells alot. Makes you feel something. The man having to make his way speaks of endurance.

Great photo except for just one element - the first tree. It stands apart from the others in that it's not bathed in fog, you could've zoomed-in on the subsequent ones via telephoto. But of course as sometimes the case, it might've not been possible. To understand why one would have had to be there. Nevertheless, I never gave a thought about autumn photography in overcast foggy conditions, but now I do!

A keen, vigilant,agile, watchfull eye on prey in the distant tumult.

Right on the mark!