Early Light On Willow Lake, Lombard, IL.
by TommyMoe21

Comment:
I'm not used to seeing those willows with that light/bright a color (early growth?), so it looks a little odd that way. Lovely pastoral setting, I find willows very photogenic. Good decision to fill the sky with the branches, but I think I'd take away the evidence of the shoreline from the lower-left by trimming a tiny bit from the laft and bottom.

Antenna
by GeneralE

Comment:

Originally posted by beckettboots: My Opinion: As a pure work of photographic art, I think the shot could benefit from color. I'm a sucker for cloudscapes and majestic skies. I might like to see it recropped in color to highlight the feeling of the ship at sea corner of the building part.

Thanks for the review! I agree with about all of it, and considered color versions as you can see below. I'm a sucker for cloudscapes too, and one reason I went B+W was to put more emphasis on the silhouette aspect rather than make it a nice cloudscape with an antenna in the way.

I'm not sure why it was so grainy; I was in shadow at the time while it was pretty bright around the subject area, so maybe that affected the exposure or focus.

I wish I had thought of the ship metaphor -- perhaps titling it Bowsprit could have bumped it up a tenth ...

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Relief Office
by coolhar

Comment:
Excellent choice for the "This Land..." project! This part of our history is being lost/forgotten rapidly, and it's exactly the subject of the lyric.

Message edited by author 2004-04-30 16:09:33.

For Which It Stands
by hsteg

Comment:

Originally posted by mavrik: Shooting the flag will always get a polar reaction.

Especially in Iceland.

"Surprise from a Penny Jar"
by tfarrell23

Comment:
Quite the example of numismatic serendipity! I hope I'm in that good condition when I'm 95. Congrats on both the shot and the find ... maybe I should go check my penny jar.

X-Rays (Accidentally Discovered in 1895)
by labuds

Comment:
Copied from a forum post:

Originally posted by labuda: Originally posted by breckinshire: Originally posted by txaggie90: I'm curious how the "X-Ray" photo was done within the rules. I was surprised that it was actually marked as verified. I agree, I was surprised by that as well. I'd be interested to hear how it was done within the rules. Funny that you ask... I'll post a tutorial about it this week :)

If ONLY this had been under the advanced rule set, you might have just been pushing the new boundaries to their limit to have maneuvered the two distal phalanges indicis downwards just a bit ...

Point of No Return
by dsidwell

Comment:

Originally posted by dhare: Great composition, and colours are funky too

... and something about your title tells me you mean more by this photo than just "a barbed wire fence."

Groovy
by Tranquil

Comment:

Originally posted by Tranquil: ...Yea, I was expecting higher than a 4.5!!!

Me too! Mine actually got a 4.9, despite a metaphorical rather than literal interpretation of the topic. It's definitely a "groovy" photo.

Since you have that solid black area to help make selections, you can have a lot of fun with this image, for example pasting someone's face into the plasma ball and fading it back to look ghostly or projected.

In the Zone
by ellamay

Comment:
The subject is a complete silhouette, with less than 10% lit from the back (right), just enough to give shape/dimension. Great action shot! I was trying to remember if that was called a skimboard ... I haven't seen a real one in a long time ...

"The Creation of Adam" by Michelangelo
by labuds

Comment:

Originally posted by Imagineer: I don't believe this is a Michelangelo actually! ;) Nice take and well shot. Thumb on the right looks artificially large though.

It's from the Sistine Chapel:


Although technically, it doesn't depict the creation of Adam, but rather the point at which he is imbued with life or soul or whatever ... if God had ever done that before you could call him the Re-Animator ....

Message edited by author 2004-04-26 00:53:44.