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Thanks, Jeffrey. Actually, these are reeds swayed by a strong wind (1/8th sec.). The merry-go-round was standing right next to a lake shore - the Lac Leman, the second biggest in Europe. As for the slanting, I have been working hard on finding the right amount for it, as well as for the blur and the vignetting to create a dreamy sense of timelessness. Do you think I overdid it?

"They shoot horses, don't they?"

Does this conversion from flashy color to subtle duotone work for you?

Thanks for your comments.

An open air museum amidst the ruins of the formerly biggest cathedral in Lisbon. The open structure reminds of the earthquake which devastated the city in 1755.

Thanks, folks. Life is a stage, isn't it? ;-)

BTW, "telephoto" - it's more like a cropped 50mm shot in Leica format terms. The "90mm" would apply to the height of the shot, not to its width. In fact an XPan 90mm/4.0 pano shot corresponds to a cropped 50mm/2.0 shot, roughly, considering width and DOF - with just 3.3 times the neg space.

Make your 15 minutes last for a little longer, Maria, and sell me a print of this

wonderful photo of yours! Congrats, I was happy to find out about your merited

success. Please contact me offline. Cheers!

Snow and clouds on a New Year's morning.

before the concert. enjoy

Enjoy.

I had no intention of putting anyone down here and I don't want to insist too heavily. But...

"Snapshot" is maybe inapropriate as the roll shows that Lukar spent a couple of frames on the subject. My point is, that eventually within a couple of minutes the shot presented _will_ come about. Amongst the shots shown it is the clearest, yes, the most balanced, yes, and the one with the verticals most aligned. So? Where is the personality, or ambiguity, or tension, or humour, or decisive moment, or individualistic aproach? Many would have seen this shot and well been able to produce it as the geometry of both, architecture and photo display, had already been created by others to produce the effect reproduced by the picture. All it took was waiting for (any) visitor(s) to stand in a fovourable spot. As has been pointed out above, the shot would well serve as an illustration of the exhibition/gallery. Period.

I find myself quite often trapped in just the reproduction of visuals created within my own culture. Maybe that's why travelling far or emotional involvement can produce more surprising and/or personal pictures...? Again, all I was trying to express was my surprise re the generally very high rating of a quite basic exercise in perspective. (BTW, cropping part of the leftmost frame would _really_ add to the picture, IMHO.)

Precision is not a dirty word for me, nor is sterility (how could it possibly...?!) - I just think that neither concept is sufficient for creating a striking image.

Just one man's thoughts.

I experimented a bit to get the most out of intentional motion blur

with that little camera... I set it to 50 ISO so it would

automatically expose for roughly a 1/8th to 1/4th at the lens' maximum

aperture of 2.8 (for the 35mm equivalent). In this particular shot I

panned ALONG WITH the subject. (BTW, the BIG advantage of a digital

camera in these situations is that you can instantly check if you have

achieved the desired effect, learn your lesson and correct your

settings accordingly...!)

With all due respect, I think this pictures is strikingly overrated. It's a sterile, average formalistic snapshot with the most foreseeable framing imaginable, illustrative at best.

Andrew,

Thanks for your nice feedback. I soup the Delta rated 400 ISO in common ID-11 (Ilford's D-76 equivalent), 1:1, 12min at 20° Celsius. Works fine for me.

Hey, I like your work. Keep them coming!

Joshua, this is a 15 sec. exposure, 50 ISO, f:2.8 running after basically one blinking firefly up a slope at dusk... get the picture?;o) I did a whole series of these, the beauty part being that I was able to browse thru the results immediately, to decide which way to go.

...if I was I wouldn't either. :o)))) LMAOROF

Very nice composition, Ivàn. I would love this to be part of a series covering Lulu's world. ;o)