peterbg

reminds me of Monet grainstacks

So which contributed more to the photo, the 4x4 or the 4x5? Great image.

Excellent shot, and thanks for commenting on mine. You DEFINITELY do not want to take out the bottom or use Photoshop on the rails as these provide critical reference for the trick. This is really nicely exposed and well captured at the height of a very stylish trick. Definitely magazine-worthy, I think. Too bad your brother isn't a pro, or this might be in Daily Bread. Keep at it!

Must be your crazy eyes, Jeffrey. I haven't touched it. Thanks everyone, I had mostly the same thoughts about this one. The RVP transparency is pretty nice to look at when it's backlit, a lot more detail comes out of the shadow - but this is lacking somewhat.

Oh! I like the original better than the crop. The glowing white in the top captures so well the light and the feeling of the morning after. The crop is too dark, and loses the "glow" that makes this image so soft and peaceful and lovely. Great shot, makes me imagine what the party was like.

Thanks guys! I think a little background might explain why this is the way it is. This is the roof tower of an hospital abandoned since around 1985 I believe. It was in the process of being demolished for the past 15+ years, and so was in a terrifying state of decay. I had no tripod with me as there was a lot of vertical climbing, balancing and tiptoeing around huge drop-offs and shafts, and dodging sharp edges. I thought about bringing one but I couldn't have gotten up the 6 stories while carrying it. In addition, we were obviously ignoring numerous NO TRESPASSING signs, so I wanted to be in this extremely conspicuous (the front towers face a main street) location for as short a time as I could. I looked up, saw the far tower framed in the bars, metered off the cement in front of me, and shot it. I thought about centering the tower, but I decided to shoot it like this instead. Maybe the wrong decision. (:

I would have loved to set it up and do some bracketing and tripod it, but we were on the fly and I nabbed it.

Thanks for all the comments! This scan was actually one of my very first film scans on a bad scanner, hence the black sliver and banding on the right. A new scan will be posted shortly.

One last nail is driven before shelter is sought and night begins to

seep in. Belize, Central America, January 2002.

creamy, eye-catching, sharp, lovely, silky smooth, almost perfect.

...yeah right. take a look at more in this and other of my folders!

but not the photographic meaning of the word.

so warm and midwesterny. the cars are a bit irritating, id like a bare highway. but otherwise it is silky and tangy. gorgeous

He doesnt need to be smiling. I imagine him drawing a deep, cool breath off of the wind, letting the robe billow, subtly delighting in being alive...

but i sorta agree that the face is a bit too dark.

no, the color purity is probably off due to Kodak's tens of thousands of dollar contributions to Republican campaigns during 1999-2000

i like it very much. very much indeed. good expression though your explanation made me feel uncomfortably voyeuristic.

thanks for the comments, guys. the flare is for real, i took a few shots trying to hit it just right.

i LIKE this picture. it caught my eye for its eerieness. i don't know if you had this mood in mind but the figure is very creepy to me surrounded by normal people, but dressed in red and gold with the face obscured. very evocative for unexplainable reasons.