keith.rice

Great shot, Al!

Mabry Mill will always be a dear place to me. My great uncle Ed used to play banjo there with some other gentlemen for the tourists. He was even featured on one of the Mabry Mill postcards.

Thanks,

Keith

Comments/suggestions requested.

Your comments/suggestions are most welcome.

My great uncle used to play banjo for the visitors to Mabry Mill a long time ago. Great capture!

From the Fort Worth Stock Show parade.

Bronze bear sculpture, Keller, Texas

I like the angle. I'm well familiar with the intersection of Main and Field Sts. Very good Italian place there on the corner.

Very touching and poignant. 6/6. I can't believe why someone would give it a 3/3.

Entrance to a nightclub (now closed) in Dallas.

Ah, yes, Steiner Street...

 

I agree with Theo. There's too much foreground in the shot. I would prefer more sky. Maybe rotate the image a little to the left to bring out the angle of the hill and also bump up the saturation a bit to bring out the colors of the houses.

 

Here's an example of what I'm talking about. Almost the same exact angle of your shot as well: Alamo Square, San Francisco, California, USA.

Lighting is good. Framing is good. However, it looks like your DOF is too shallow and her face is not in sharpest focus. The sharpest focus appears to be on her blouse. Maybe try shooting with a smaller aperture.

The Old Bedford School in

Bedford, Texas is Bedford's first schoolhouse and was built in 1915.

Your comments are most welcome. Thanks!

This image was originally captured on 35mm ISO 400 color film. I

scanned in the photo and edited it to remove film grain, adjust the

color somewhat, and crop it to what you see here. Please let me know

what you think.

 

Thanks!

This image was originally taken on 35mm ISO 400 film. I scanned in the

photo and edited it to remove a lot of the film grain and adjusted the

color. Please let me know what you think.

 

Thanks!

Nice clear image of "Big Momma," as some of my Ukrainian friends have called her. I see she's being used as a cell phone tower now.

Please provide your comments. Thanks!

I love what you did with color. Very surreal. The background almost looks like a painting. Great job!

"Sidewalk Judge" is one of several bronze statues along Main St. in

Grapevine, Texas.

 

Ratings are welcome but I really want comments about what you

like/dislike about the image.

I think you did a good job. Brightening up the background to bring out the musicians adds quite a lot to the overall effect. The background is quite grainy and noisy but that's due to the high ISO you had to use I'm sure. One other item, the lamp on the right is distracting but it's nothing that a little Photoshop work can't fix. Overall, I really like this image.

Great image! I love the contrast and how the mist from waves was captured as well. keep up the good work!

I took this on a trip to Irkutsk, Russia in August of 1998. We were

waiting for the fog to clear so we could take the hydrofoil up the

Angara River to Listvyanka on Lake Baikal.

 

Please view larger. I scanned this from a photo, desaturated, cropped,

edited out dust/flaws, etc.

 

Please do not just rate the photo but provide your comments as well.

Thank you!

The night before I took this photo was almost perfectly clear. The ranch is 45 minutes away from the nearest large town so there's no light pollution so you could see thousands of stars. I may go ahead and post a couple of pictures I took of the stars so you can see how clear it was. The stars pictures aren't that great since my camera's max exposure time is 15 seconds.

Closeup of the wellhead on an old oil well.

 

Your comments are welcome.

View larger. Your comments are welcome.