Shower
by Jedusi

Comment by Bear_Music:
Reaction:

Essence of rain. eerie, edgy due to dog cropping off-frame. Strong reaction that it would work better if half the space on the right were cropped out; that was an immediate thought I had. I love this kind of shot.

R.

Shower
by Jedusi

Comment by agenkin:
Pretty. But I'm a sucker for rain shots. :) The tree creates a very strong symmetry, which is broken by the fragment of the dog on the left. The story is interesting and anyone can associate with it. The atmospheric perspective adds depth to the shot and makes it yummy. I don't like that the image is cropped, because I think that cropping is a no-no in photography. The B&W conversion is pretty good.

Shower
by Jedusi

Comment by Germaine:
Hmmmm. Posthumous has said it a lot better than I can. I am especially impressed by how the rain has become the grain (can't get away from that rhyme) and a noticeable and important part of the picture.

Shower
by Jedusi

Comment by posthumous:
It is so hard to get a good picture of rain. agenkin has done it well. He captures the motion of rain, the energy of it. You have captured the feeling of rain, a texture of rain, as though rain were something unmoving in the air that we could touch. Everything in your photo is profoundly affected by this rain. Your son is under a tree because of it. The tree is heavy with it. Your dog defies the rain, and as such is almost banned from the photo. Notice that his form is balanced by a heavier presence of branches in the opposite corner. It is a perfectly balanced photo, which is rare in a photo so wide. The forms of son and tree curving against each other, the way the son's vertical is extended by some sort of branch in the foreground, this is perfectly composed the way a painting would be. But it is too momentary for a painting, and few painters would dare to paint only half a dog. No, this is pure photography. It is not painting, it is not reality, it is an impossibility: instead of water taking the shape of its container, the container takes the shape of water.

Shower
by Jedusi

Comment by pineapple:
Now who has the most sense? The dog is off home - or said "darn it, we're out here so let's get wet." I like the raindrops captured. Certainly sums up one of those days.

Love Lost
by Jedusi

Comment by pineapple:
After shooting a large number of attempted bubble shots, hand held at the beach, I can sympathize with your dilemma. It is a poignant scene - yet it probably needed a tripod to reveal its true beauty.

Love Lost
by Jedusi

Comment by posthumous:
I gave this a 7. I don't generally like rose shots because it's too cliched of a symbol, but the water is creating major distortion here, which adds a lot of interest for me. You also have strong diagonals in the composition.

And sometimes when I look at this I imagine the bubbles are issuing out of the rose like notes from a small sad bugle.

Sunset Silhouette
by Jedusi

Comment by kashi:
Love the colours in the sky here.

Morning Mist
by Jedusi

Comment by SandyP:
Wow, Steve! This is BEAUTIFUL!!! I love that ethereal fog and the detail on the different shades of trees. I have a vision of this matted and framed in kind of a sleek contemporary decor! It would look WONDERFUL!!!

The Watcher
by Jedusi

Comment by SandyP:
I love photos like this. They seem so emotive with the silhouette against the water and the pretty lighting. I really love this!