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Sorry Tom, didn't mean to offend. Comment retracted.

I can hear those wonderful engines singing while squinting the eyes. Bad place to find two Spits if you were in a Messerschmidt. Good Job. A 10 and a 6! Tally Ho!

Tom, I've never seen T400CN come out this soft before. This is the look that I really appreciate and haven't been able to achieve. Envious!

Whoa! I got dizzy looking at this. Good effect! Love the use of the tower's symmetry.

Tom - this is an absolutely exquisite shot. The color spectrum is marvelous. I give it a 10 in aesthetics. I would enlarge it as much as possible.

Excellent! Most original. Sometimes the whims turn out to be the best.

Aaron - I posted a similar shot on this forum a while back, and a reviewer gave me a valuable lesson. Without something in the frame that provides scale or life, this shot could have easily been made on a model railroad instead of the real thing. As a former model railroader, if this shot was taken on my layout, I would be quite pleased. But for real-life photography, it needs something to show its real-life; a person, a dog, or whatever.

Very light and airy. The dress, window, and breeze all compliment each other. Very nice indeed.

Very pleasing effect. Good job capturing this unusual lighting and the effect it produces.

Mike - I like it just the way it is. I'm probably biased due to being a veteran, but so what. Your camera angle and range are very much like what a correspondant or combat photographer would capture as the squad walked by. The exposure is fine. The soldiers are dark as they really are in the field. And you captured the faces which is important. The flag is bright and along with its positioning, greatly emphasises its symbolism. The trees add to the image of being in the field. I gave it 7 and 7. No expert at ratings either. Maybe it should be 10 and 10. Its a powerful image.

Good job capturing the moment. I would ask that you qualify your caption by mentioning this was a re-enactment. Capturing this moment in a re-enactment is a whole lot different than doing it in the real thing.

Great Job! Good portrayal of the dignity and beauty of Highway 50. This is America's highway as far as I'm concerned.

Dan,

Your composition looks OK to me. I've been a Yashica TLR user for years. I don't think there's any special tips on using the waist level viewer other than check around the edges for extraneous stuff. Enjoy the 124G!

Kit,

I like this shot. Big sky, nasty clouds, tall grass and the lions. I would also like to see it without digital alterations. Not being a snobby purist, just one who appreciates nature such as this. (Only thing missing in Kansas is the lions)

Nice job Steven. Good emphasis of the fins. I'm a big fan of photographing these old cars.

Excellent. And who says we can't have humor in photography?

If the purpose of art is evoke emotion, then Joel has succeeded brilliantly with this photo.

 

Now time to stand tall. I'm an American veteran, quite proud of it, and unashamed of our military heritage. I note that our collegues in Australia, who were with us in Viet Nam, and experienced great debacle in Gallipoli under command of European generals, seem to feel as we do. I note that its mostly Europeans who accuse us of being in kind with the Nazis and such. Congratulations! You are celebrating the freedom that many, many Americans, Aussies, Brits, Canadians, and French won for you. I would dare you to repeat your comments over similar memorials at Normandy, Gallipoli, or the Somme. To those in the UK, talk to your grandparents about who kept England alive to stand against the Nazis in 1940, or who broke the U-Boat strangle hold in '43. To our Eastern Europe collegues, maybe we should have let the Nazis and the Soviets have you for good. We can openly criticize our government for every foible it makes. You didn't dare under past regimes. Who enabled you to tear down the Berlin Wall and the Iron Curtain? Maybe we should have let Iraq gain control of the Middle East in '91? Maybe we should have let Milosovic continue his slaughter too? Maybe we shouldn't have ended (one way or another) all of the wars Europeans and European politics started in the last 100 years. Maybe we shouldn't have refused the tactics of the European generals in both world wars that fed soldiers to the slaughter with no tactical nor strategic purpose? Maybe we should have let Imperial Japan keep Viet Nam, the Phillipines, and take Australia too? (Then Joel wouldn't have taken this photo.) Finally, maybe we shouldn't have given the world this internet, which you seem to enjoy, a product of the evil American Defense establishment.

 

Enjoy your freedom folks. This is what its all about. Once again, congratulations to Joel for his photograph, and to photo.net for making this discussion possible.

 

OOHRAH (macho American military jargon)

Great effect! How'd you do it? Excellent originality, taking a simple common item and turning it into a stunning image. Thumbs up for the basement!

I hope my comment evokes response from those who don't see the point of this or the elitists who look down upon it. Don't pay any attention to them Joe, for they know not of what they speak. You've done a very credible job and your heart was obviously touched (as any human's should be). The others should save their venom for the politicians who create the wars, not those who were sacrificed in them. I give this a 10 in both categories.

With the proper exposure, this would be a good shot. The A-10 adds to the urgency of the situation and its attitude is perfect. I suspect the auto exposure is the culprit here. Try going to manual exposure, open up two stops aperature more than the indicated exposure. Or, you can go manual and use the sunny 16 rule.

Those are signal flags used to send messages between ships. Each one represents a letter of the alphabet. Its been too long for me to remember each one, but they are likely arranged to form a message here.

 

Aside from that, nice shadows and sillouettes.

This photo is simply marvelous. It captures everything a photograph can capture. Color film would not do it justice.

I'm always drawn to photographing "junk" for the same reasons; color, texture, oddness, ect. But I just can't quite make out the objects in the foreground of this one. I think the perspective of them throws the shot off. The blue panel truck by itself looks quite interesting.

I think its a great picture. "Non-portrait" shots of wildlife are great. One captures on film what most seldom see in life.