charleswood

Thanks Alain!

Mythic stark beauty with allusions to great themes, the quotidian banished by your clarity of vision. Two mythic Great adversaries and of course, the fish.

Here she's seen enough of us and turns to leave. Then she left to stare at us from the brush, not moving on until I left. She waited until we left to then go on to reunite with her nuclear family members.

Then she looked up at my dog an me on the bridge. She looked at us for about 30 seconds. She knows that if we came after her she could get away easily.

She's looking at the underpass' concrete wall. There isn't anything in front of her to see.

She's leaving an underpass, I'm on a bridge above. She went under the bridge because she thought she saw me leave. She saw my companion leave and made a mistake, thinking we both had left the bridge. She stopped when she heard the camera.

Great drama, great story. I think you could crop tighter and add a tad more contrast. Attached is an exaggeration of where I would go with this.

I find that same personality pictured here. Cool little birds.

Thanks Steve!

The yawn functions biologically to make him more alert and prepared.

Were the woman on the right instead stunning, I would have still played with cropping the stunning woman too so as to be less so in a similar manner because either way, stunning or as is, IMHO the figure distracts somewhat from the serene young man in your version.  My eye just tends to go to and settle to the right, for others, their eye may not do that.

Perhaps a portrait crop would reduce the legitimate reasons for concern and be an improvement too. The woman on the left leads the viewer's eye in, the one on the right is given too much weight in the composition, in my view. Something like this:

That's not a good place to sit, the figure on the rock real?

Thanks Trisha!

The appearance of the photo, its collage effect and the instagram filter, may be contributing to a photographic statement implied by the title. But the child's uniqueness still is present despite all that. Quite lovely really, if I look at it that way.

I think that if more of the figure on the left were included though still with under emphasis and perhaps with a narrower crop: then the photograph would convey more than as re-cropped above, and which it almost says as it is cropped. This photo to me can potentially say more than 'aren't they pretty" and I want it to say more than just that.

You're son was right to persuade you. The thing is, Mona Lisa's smile is enigmatic to men, but in reality she may have been smiling just for having a break from other duties.

I actually think that this portrait is intended as more than a superficial display of feminine beauty. I think the photograph captures a more than quiet well, because of the models expression. Is it a feminine view of the feminine?, I ask myself. The pose, the expression form for me something in the nature of a question, and if the capture of a question is intended then the vulnerability and honest of it are well captured, maybe an effect contributed to by the mix of blur and focus, and in its entirety portraying both openness and a pause, neither of whose meaning at that moment can quite be disregarded at that moment.

Classic, well done.

This one was very fun. Thanks Trisha.

Thank you Trisha.

Nice stare capture, pretty funny. Charles

Thank you Tom. I hope to get his puppies soon.

Hi Tm, Hi Radu and thank you.

This bird performed fairly close to my two dogs and me and when it did run or fly off, it came back right away. Something was there, a nest no doubt, that I couldn't see and which it didn't want me to see, and that it wanted us to chase it and leave in the process was certain.  And you are both right: It did look part of the time like it was fluffing a nest; at other times it faked an injured wing. The photo is sort of an in between display. I've never been able to get close to Killdeers so it was a great event in my day.