Comfort Food
by Catherine

Comment by adine:
Pretty pepper. I like how you arranged it with stem looking down into the kife. The chopped garlic and the knife tell a story about cooking and preparation for a yummy meal, makes me think of aroma! the colors are fine, I think larger DOF, and a bit less bright..

Comfort Food
by Catherine

Comment by drgsoell:
Good contrast of subject colors and smells. Personally I have a hard time with the overbrightness of the right side, but still effective. Nice shot.

Comfort Food
by Catherine

Comment by willem:
Good clean image with seamless background. Uout of balance because the garlic on the right is overexposed, hardly visible against the background, and the red pepper takes all the attention.

Comfort Food
by Catherine

Comment by aKiwi:
Right seems to be a bit overexposed. Perhaps another colour backgroud as white on white is hard to pick up. But nice shart colourfull picture

Comfort Food
by Catherine

Comment by jmsetzler:
Good composition here but the exposure is a tad high...

It's Like Money Down The Drain
by Catherine

Comment by Neil:
A very pretty capture and good idea. The literal phrase I know is "Like Pouring money down the drain", and that migh have been even better, to have a pitcher full of money and pouring them down the sink! I wish I had thought of that one earlier, I might have done it myself!

It's Like Money Down The Drain
by Catherine

Comment by Miah:
that's what you get for exchanging american pennies with canadian ones... ooh! i'm sorry, do you live in canada?? i'm so sorry for you.. how very insensitive of me.. :-D just kidding.. i'm sure canada is a beautiful place.

It's Like Money Down The Drain
by Catherine

Comment by Dufus:
I like the collor of this photo and the DOF is just perfect.

The Unlit Lamp (Radclyffe Hall)
by Catherine

Comment by Catherine:

Originally posted by e301: Your first submission ... please please please don't be put off by the majority of voters - this is a place where shiny designer photos do very well, and the intersting stuff tends to get hidden beneath that. We need more people here with your sensibility of light and composition. Ed

Thanks so much. I appreciate the encouragement. I'm not put off at all. It's an art form and to each his own set of sensibilities and tastes. I'm pretty stubborn about the way I like to show things - and I am certain I will learn a lot here about the technical aspects of what I want to do without sacrificing, at all, any of my artistic goals. There are some stunningly good photographers in the halls. I'm pretty gratified that a few folks liked it a lot.

Catherine

The Unlit Lamp (Radclyffe Hall)
by Catherine

Comment by Catherine:

Originally posted by uabresch: Catherine, so this was your picture! IMHO it should have scored a lot higher. It's just beautiful. Pictures like yours tend to score a bit lower at this site, I'm guessing it's because people don't take (or don't have) the time to look slowly, but maybe it's something else. Who knows.

Thanks. Sometimes I find the beauty of things is not so much in their whole but in some of their most unlikely, and sometimes minute, parts and actions. Photography is so cool to me because I can show those parts. Of course, it does leave a lot of people scratching their heads and saying "what the HECK is that?" Those are usually my favorite shots :)

Catherine