tstrait

It would have been nice to have gotten Bill's whole shoe in the viewfinder. Alas, that lens is a royal pain to use. That's probably why the experts get paid so much to use it

-tbs

The underside of a highway bridge in Ann Arbor, MI

Decaying a little, with dirt and weeds.

I like the shapes of the pillars

- tbs

Tumacacori, in Arizona, was a Jesuit enclave for a hundred years or

so, and now a part of the NPS.

This view, from the East, shows the South part of the church and

another of the compound's mud buildings.

I like the leading lines and the colors, but the balance is a little

funny...

tbs

Making the background blur is easy with a 300mm... but it still looks

cool.

A recently-shot image on Kodachrome. Just to prove it's still

possible...

tbs

To me, the muted colors look great. More lifelike, and a better conveyance of the emotions of color than a totally saturated, sunlight-bright color palette would.

I like it.

tbs

I love how there's

a) no nudity

b) mystery

and c) light and shadow

She's beautiful, but your eyes are drawn to hers. Her figure is subtly irrelevent. Very nice.

How wouldit have looked differently with the hair to her right lit a little? It falls off quite a bit from the shadow from her head. Only one light?

tbs

less spectacular than the 'upper' falls; these are actually more

interesting, i think. there are several drops like this, scattered

over a half mile or so of river.

general public access made it difficult to arrange for no other

people to be present in the frame...

i tried to find a middle ground between a smeary-blur and stopped-

motion. this waterfall was very violent with a mountain's meltwater,

and i was pretty impressed.

tbs

I like this composition, but i'm not sure i'm in love with it. the

right side seems a little off-balance... but i like the color and the

shape. would have been better from a bit farther left - that would

make better focus contrast between the forground rock and the

background rock.

tbs

There are actually two rivers that converge at this point, it was

pretty impressive for a guy who grew up with sand dunes...

I shot this as a vertical as well, but I like it this way better.

Pretty basic shot, with a tripod

This scene was found 'as-is' in a state park in Washington. The leaf

had to wash out to see anything of the log or ground; I like the way

it 'glows'.

this is really good, great position, perfect timing, focus, etc. the only drawback is that the other bike is overlapped from your vantage point. the profile of the bike in front is obscured by the other rider (it doesn't help that the colors are so similar). too bad, but it still looks good.

tbs

i like this image a lot - i'm from northern michigan, and have an emotional connection to barren winter scenes. however, the forground is mostly an empty field. i would like this image even more from a slightly different vantage point (to the right, i think, though it may not have been possible) and a one-more telephoto lens (i.e. if this were a 50mm, then an 85).

but that's just me; it still looks really good, particularly the colors.

tbs

Looking East at Mt Baker, in the spring. The mountain itself is

shrouded in clouds, but its sub-peaks are visable, and the valley is

almost in sunlight.

I particularly like the wire fence - it's just barely off-center, and

gives some tension to a still scene.

-tbs

College Hockey, University of Michigan vs. Michigan State

University. 2001, CCHA playoffs. From the vantage point of the

Michigan Hockey band, during warmups.

This is actually my father, lugging a tripod and lenses accross

Sleeping Bear Point in Nothern Michigan. So neither of us are

actually 'alone' in this particular case...

I like the in-focus/out-of-focus forground and background, and the

colors/textures in the pillars in the background...

This is a basically unedited shot of a trillium that had just

bloomed (trillium usually only bloom for ~2 days a year) and had

happened to be caught in a shaft of light as I passed it this past

spring at Empire Bluffs in Empire, MI. I think it captures the

lonliness of the Manitou Passage in spring, as I know it, but I've

been wrong before. I cropped this in-camera, and am not certain I'm

happy with all the weight being on the left side or if moving a foot

to my right would have been better.

ts

i wonder what he was looking at.

very nice, though.

this is a great shot, i like it and wish i had one like it, but i don't live near any mountains...

the sky and lake colors gradients, and the sunlight on the mountain, are my favorites. that's the reward, i suppose, for waking up so damn early

the subject itself is pretty vanilla, though. i would have given this image a better score if i hadn't already seen it in a book by somebody else.