gardengoyle
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Comment by DefyTime:
Like the B&W...great contrast.

gardengoyle
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Comment by kje83:
love it...

Chocolate Mint Creek
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Comment by bmartuch:
Very serene feel to it Don. Makes you want to just sit back and listen to the birds.

Chocolate Mint Creek
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Comment by skewsme:
You forgot to plop a chocolate mint bimbo on a thirds line, silly! BTW, I think this is either Greendell or Huntsville. This photo is zen because your eyes go everywhere and nowhere at once. And when I look at this picture, I get the sensation of a cool breeze wafting in one of my ears and out the other. I am amazing for that huge bone!

Chocolate Mint Creek
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Comment by JBHale:
Hello from the Critique Club!!

You used a longer exposure, which is great! It's always good to manipulate settings to achieve different results. The focus is on, and the colors turned out very well. In fact, there are many very good technical aspects of your picture.

However, what it's missing is a strong center of interest. The picture doesn't have much of a subject, leaving the point of interest at the stream. A stream can be a center of interest, but it must be shot from a more dynamic point of view. Next time try letting the stream flow down into the frame, rather than across it. The composition does a nice job of drawing the eye to the stream, but it includes the unnecessarily dull greenery on the top and bottom. Always remember that it helps to fill your frame with the subject, and not surround it by anything distracting.

You are on the right track, and you nailed the technical execution. Just work on your composition and think about the picture as highlighting something that people will find interesting to look at. Happy shooting!!

--James B. Hale

Chocolate Mint Creek
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Comment by Sheryll:
I can almost taste it!!

Dixie Porch Loungers
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Comment by noraneko:
Most artistic, Herr Zimmer! But the real winner here is the band's history, especially the Crash Onnalevy part. Has Jeffrey seen this, by chance?

love triangle
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Comment by sidpixel:
Very clever title and concept. I had to think twice about the title! The red of the lead and his tongue complete the picture very nicely. I think it may have had more impact if it could have been shot without the grass. Good luck

Dixie Porch Loungers
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Comment by Germaine:
You should have won the ribbon for album notes!

Great shot -- captures the feel of the old-time country albums.

Dixie Porch Loungers
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Comment by Lozza:
At the western end of Twelve Mile Post Road in Georgia, there used to be a Dew Drop Inn called Gummy Stu's by the locals - don't look for it, it burned down in the mysterious swamp fire of '98. Legend said that Perry Como played there one night, lost and insane on one of his legendary White Jesus binges. Folks say that it was this appearance that turned the boys known now as the Dixie Porch Loungers on the way to greatness.

Listen... the Dixie Porch Loungers played music that would get your older brother to second base but at the same time get your daddy tapping his feet. Inbred, but not ostentatiously so, these southern born down home folks didn't hold with book larning, but gleaned all they needed to know from pappy's reminiscenses of the fateful night Ol' Perry came to town and crooned for the folks until the moonshine ran dry. Folks at home told them that it wasn't right - but the boys' long-lost and enigmatic Uncle Rufus, in a gesture designed to atone for old sins he refused to name, bank rolled the boys' first legendary recording. Rufus, a greasy combination of entrepeneur, audio engineer and short order cook was the right man at the right time, recording the boys right there out front of their home. And Porch Songs was born.

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