Day 24/50 - Gum Leaf Tips
by sherpet

Comment:
Nice lines and colors.

Day 23
by hajeka

Comment:
Wow, startlingly detailed macro. Who knew the lead was so rough? Very nice!

Day16 - Gi
by WalesP

Comment:
I am nervous about people shots as well. You're right in that it's not techically perfect, but got a good environmental portrait here.

Day16 - Ice Creams
by WalesP

Comment:
great job editing! It looks great, and very believable. This is a very nice shot.

day 17 - eighty
by rachelellen

Comment:

Originally posted by bs-photos: What a nice candid! She looks great for her age! And does she dye her hair!?!? If not dang did she do good on not getting stressed out & grey hair! haha Thanks for sharing your Grandma's story with us!

She does not dye her hair at all. She has a few grays, but not many. (My mother, 55, has not a single gray hair that I've ever noticed -- I'm hoping I take after my maternal line in this regard as well! :)

day 17 - eighty
by rachelellen

Comment:

Originally posted by Pug-H: Good portrait. She's two weeks older than my father.

Actually, she's probably right at his age. Her birthday's not till the 31st -- we celebrated it yesterday because we (my brother, parents and I) wouldn't be able to attend the big party that my mother's sisters planned for her elsewhere on the day itself.

Day 16 Fox
by jonfrommk

Comment:
This is very nice, a very cool weathervane indeed, and nicely composed.

I have no post-processing suggestions. I am such a total amateur at processing, and the few things I know how to do I have picked up in settings like this challenge.

Day 14 - TQ Midgets
by bs-photos

Comment:
Cool action shot. Sounds like a fun way to spend the weekend. :)

day 14 - scouts.jpg
by rachelellen

Comment:

Originally posted by citymars: Really nice personal photo. I can see the family resemblance. I'm curious as to why you blurred out some of the t-shirts. The troop number? Sometimes I think we worry too much about stuff like that. I mean, someone could maybe use it to identify your you or your town, but why would they? I don't mean to offend, quite the opposite -- just saying put your mind at ease about familial safety. Caution is good, but I think the news likes to scare us about dangers lurking out there to the point that they create fear where none is needed. OK, end of rant. :-)

No offense taken at all! Yes, I blurred out the troop number and the name of the town where we live. Mostly because I also post these to my blog, where I post a lot more personal stuff than I do here, which could, in theory, make my family more of a target, on the very slim chance that anyone ever went looking for a target. My main concern is that the Internet has a really long memory, and all the information I put on my blog (or anywhere) will generally be findable in some way for who knows how long, thanks to Google's archiving and similar stuff, even if I take it down someday. I remember when I first had Internet access and a humble little online presence, I threw my full name and similar personal info around without even thinking about it, and when I got uneasy about that years later, it was virtually impossible to undo. I didn't want to somehow again find myself regretting making personal information available, at some future time.

It's a tough line to walk between caution and overcaution, but I try. :) My caution doesn't drive me off the Internet or keep me from posting pictures of my kids, but a little blurring on a couple of t-shirts didn't seem like too much of a sacrifice. :)

day 15 - birds
by rachelellen

Comment:

Originally posted by k4ffy: excellent use of negative space, and a really well executed gradient on the sky. i also like the slight dip in the line from the weight of the birds.

I'm laughing at all the 'great gradient' comments, because I didn't do that. It was really there. Can't take credit. :) Thahks, though.

Message edited by author 2007-07-16 13:55:15.