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I love the condensation rivulets and the bare branches in the bg. Her face suits the scene as well. The whole frame is packed quite tightly-- i have a camera which is slow to turn on. So I simply ...

I like the lighting, or rather the shadow, across the clown's face. The colors also work well to me. Overall there's a bit of a spooky three-dimensional spatiality to the picture, which I like, I ...

I think the processing works better for this shot than the previous one. Here, there's less sense of blown out highlights and the amplified colors suit the blossoms and the tie. I like the scene, ...

everything is 'real'... just, as jac noticed, I had to lower contrast and raise shadows to an extreme degree to begin to represent the range of tones in this scene. Was a moonless night and the ...

Love the row of figures with soccer balls in the middle ground-- the guy in the air is certainly in the middle of something, but his placement doesn't quite mesh with the whole... still an ...

Interesting how no one is paying attention to her. Even her own expression appears preoccupied with something else. Good job contrasting her costume with the surroundings--

I like the textures, the graphic stops, the clouds. The figure works well as a nostalgic focal point. I would consider shaving some off the bottom edge for the sake of proportions. If you want to ...

i have to agree that we live in interesting times, as the saying goes. and i was just mentioning to er, above, how pics of these demos reminded me in some ways more of the photos from the 60's than ...

i don't know that change actually does happen slowly. i think most of the time it not only happens quickly, the most momentous changes take place in ways we don't really even notice until after ...

i thought somehow you might appreciate seeing these. and probably not a bad thing to know people up in canada, either.

upside-down, i thought i'd add one from here-

nothing to be sorry for, i appreciated your comment. technically politics is out of bounds according to forum rules, but it is difficult to completely disentangle politics, or feelings, from ...

i think this is about the best moment for his action that could be; it's surprisingly expressive. i like the bg on the right quite a bit, although i do wish there were more in frame around the top, ...

last week's us election has again laid bare the gaping chasm between the cities and hinterlands of the country. clinton has overwhelmingly won the cities nationwide (as well as the popular vote), ...

Thanks for replying, benedictus. I don't know what's coming--right now, I get the impression that it may be different from what partisans on either side seem to expect. That doesn't make me very ...

Interesting light and periphery- i would like to see a crop, in from right to take away the blue sky outside the pillar, and down from the top a bit. I think there's more blank than you need, and ...

This is really weird--most certainly in a good way. I would have liked if the fellow's white sleeve were black, to register the biker's face less jarringly. But I love the precisely visible faces ...