awahlster

Being a bit of a farm boy myself I find this a very pleasent photo to look at. The way the grass and grain show the wind and the solid feel of the old fence post create a counter balance for each other. The colors are a bit muted and dark especially the tree line, but the clouds and sky are very nice. I do find the building that is almost dead center a distraction with not enough to tell if its a gain elevator or a chruch I think I would pull it out.

Certinly a subject you could shoot a couple of different ways but I wouldn't change the balance in the colors if possible. You also if possible might return next year to see what light you happen to catch on a follow up visit. I do that a lot since I am a Dump truck driver I pass the same places over and over again and sometime all it takes is a little bit different light and a photo just pops out at me.

Well lets see this engines configuration is:4-6-6-4 A Challeger of which I have a perfect HO scale version of has a configuration of 4-6-6-4 My Mallett is a 2-8-8-2 and my Big Boy is a 4-8-8-4. There were a number of larger locomotives then the Big Boy and certinly then a Challeger Norfork and Western operated some very large engines for details go to: http://www.steamlocomotive.com/misc/largest.html

SO of the above statements about this engine in the photo 1. It is not the largest locomotive 2. it is not a Big Boy (resting in a park in Cheyenne Wyoming) and three I wish I could stand 50yards from the track as it went by at about 90 miles an hour pulling 100 frieght cars!

I guess is my comment is:

I really don't appreciate being SPAMED asking me to rate or comment on your photo. Especially by someone I don't know. You got some real nerve doing this. You have used the email address feature of Photo.net in an inapproprate way.

I would have like to have had more to the left of the angel but there

was another mounment that would have completely unbalanced the angel

just mm outside of this frame. I was also unable to move the light

into the halo also because of obstructions in the grave yard. I had

to lay on a grave next to the angel to be able to get this shot.

Please feel free to be brutal.

Mark W.

Blacktail Deer Fawn at Windsor Island gravel pit close-up.

This fawn all of maybe 6-7 lbs. was put on this giant pile of dirt

where it's mother thought it would be safe only problem was it was

right next to a machine that is used to sift dirt. When they came in

to start the machine the operator found the fawn and they shut down

the whole area of the gravel pit to protect the fawn. I took the

photos being careful to not allow any of my scent to get to close to

it. The next morning Mother deer had come and got Jr. and they were

off doing deer things

Photo taken at Rockaway beach Oregon April 28th 2001 Canon A-1 28mm

f2.8 at f8 1/125th Kodak Max 800 shot thru a Cokin sepia filter