kevinhalliburton

I see an elderly woman with failing health about to make her final journey. Trepidation, fear, expectation... you could read all of into her gaze. The young man, a grandson maybe, ambivalent, a little sad, focused for the moment on his final farewell but ready to head back into the world he's yet to conquer as soon as the train leaves. Not a bad kid, just too young to fully absorb the importance of the moment. I wonder if the suit he is wearing is for business or memorial reasons... The longer you look, the more you are drawn into the story... your own story.

 

Any image that can get that much interpretation out of me at a glance is a powerful capture. Well done!

Due any day now...

 

Backlit with evening sun and filled with Vivitar 5600 flash on camera.

Background underexposed by 2.5 stops and lightly burned in post

processing.

Wow - Gorgeous! Love the vibrant orange against the muted background.

Just another cat with an "eye" for photography - Look close

Don't miss the eyes - Look close, it's subtle.

This photo seems more like a story about the tree than the man, am I right? There is a blurry spot where the limb was removed on the left side of the trunk that bothers me a little but the way you convince the light and mist to frame your vision of this scene is truly magical.

Not to make more of this shot than it deserves, but the shadows on

the face of this energetic model remind me of a mask, war paint,

engine grit around race goggles, and a thousand other adventures

stored in a boy's imagination. What do you think? Just a moment of

silliness, or did I catch something special here?

The humor in this giraffe photo seemed as plain as the face on my

nose the first time I saw it.

I promise not to hit you with a snowball if take a moment to look

Thanks

The highlights in this photo were so badly blown that I almost

deleted it. There was no color showing in the camera preview at all.

One year later I noticed the faint whisp in the blown out sky while I

was browsing the directory. Since I shot the original in RAW I was

able to recover this amazing sky. If I hadn't dodged the tree trunks

and touched up a few branches this would have qualified

for "unmanipulated." It's an incredible era to be an amature

photographer!

I shot this as a lighting excercise. Edits include rotate, crop,

dodge and burn to bring out the face and removing a small wrinkle on

the lip.