Shrimper
by davidbedard

Comment:
I just took a photo today to try and capture a tangle of ropes/cables like this, so I guess that makes this a good idea!

Design Vision
by Firsty

Comment:
Well-done effect. I would have written the title

Design/Vision

7AM at the downtown Library
by caba

Comment:
I like the spiral path fading from the sharp steel into the foggy building outlines.

Silken Intricacy
by mocabela

Comment:
Excellent use of the OOF background shapes to frame and contrast the subject.

Daughter
by dwolff

Comment:
I really like the way you used her hair.

Ebb and Flow
by zeuszen

Comment:
It looks like ripples in obsidian. I was considering how it would look at other angles, but I see how this one fits the cropping perfectly.

Doggie Heaven
by Cam

Comment:
Is that East Bernard or Saint Bernard? : )

Really nice, with both the funny cloud and well-defined sun rays -- I've been working on capturing those.

I also got a recent shot of a dog-shaped cloud, but I think mine looks more like a Schnauzer.

Old No. 11
by GeneralE

Comment:

Originally posted by dartompkins: Good idea, but he crop seems a bit tight. I think If I were going to get this tight a shot of the train, I would have been trying to get a photo of the front straight on with the smoke rising from the top. That may not have been possible, of course, but that is where my mind goes with your idea. 7.

I couldn't get right in front as they were under way, and there was a fence preventing me from getting a tighter angle. The crop is tight because the rest of the train makes it more obvious that this is a scale model -- I think it's a standard 3:2 crop, and the subject matter was supposed to be the smoke.

Originally posted by Ecce Signum: I don't get to see trains like that in the UK, nice shot, would like to see a little more smoke but meets the challenge well. Tthe foreground seems a little blown to me.

I would have liked to see more smoke too, but these are burning oil rather than coal -- this being California, I'm surprised they let them smoke at all : )

I did make a point of trying to time it so as to catch the smoke against the soot-stained trunk of the redwood tree -- otherwise the smoke would have been almost invisible. To do that, I had to lock the exposure when the train was a little further up the track where it was darker, leading to the blown-out foreground.

I thought in the UK you still had all kinds of great trains, while we in the States have allowed our railroads to decay under the pressures of profitability ...

Piano Haven
by saintaugust

Comment:
I'm trying to figure out if there's a way to flip it around so the stairway ends up forming a bass clef. Very interesting shot; with the strong tonal differences make it a nice "abstract" as well.

Knock Out
by labuds

Comment:

Originally posted by hlswilson: Beautifully done. In focus, well lit, wonderful expression. Love that purple belt flying in the air ...

I like photos that have that one bit of a bright different color. I did guess right away that you'd used a trampoline, maybe because I'm pretty familiar with them since we had one at my elementary school. Good idea, well-done!