Pleasing casual portraits that show emotion and personality. Monochrome renders the backgrounds and colors nicely irrelevant so we can focus on the person. There is a little bother with the overexposure on the hand in the bottom one, pulls the eye away from the real subject a bit too much, and I suspect it is not retrievable.
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Just wow. Well spotted/taken. What an amazing building. The shapes and reflections are just as confusing as that museum I went into in Las Vegas, and just as mesmerizing. While I appreciate my first look at this amazement showing me that it is indeed an architectural structure, I will encourage you to visit again and take a long lens and see how many different abstract compositions you can isolate within this thing, something you are getting quite good at. You could fill a book!
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Welcome back and I hope you'll visit more! This one is a classic Simple-Joy offering of mixed degrees of sharpness and subtle blurred elements mixed together in an artistic way. The narrow area of focus is enough to draw our attention to the single shaft of seedy grass that's the subject, but all the other supporting elements (vague shapes, rich colors, bland colors, the single yellow orb that might or might not be the sun, light and shadow) are well placed to create compositional cohesion. Beautiful image.
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The sky is very interesting, especially that V shape of clouds near the horizon. Nice colors too. I think I spotted the comet coming in to the center from about the 11:00 position. There are numerous other objects with trails but that's the only one that looks comet-like to my untrained eye. The others may be planes or satellites? The airfield may offer good visibility but it doesn't give a very appealing foreground, especially the super lit up tanks below what I think is the comet. I would have the same trouble as I live in a flat place and there are no scenic elevated viewpoints, so I struggle with photographing stars and night phenomena. Looks like you made the best of a limited set of elements.
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There's some nice ones in this sequence, but I'm unclear about what holds the overall group together without some explanation. You might get more helpful feedback with some narrative, or by submitting a single image you're particularly interested in hearing about. Here's my take:
1 - Probably my favorite because I like a mix of old rusty stuff and nature co-existing with it. I would clone out the little piece of trash upper right, unless I was using it as part of a trash awareness campaign.
2 - Nice sunstar! Makes an average cityscape into something special!
3 - Interesting reflection. Lots of cool geometry and subtle color. Lots of opportunity for abstracts here. Love the wiggly reflections in the lower third.
4 - Really nice architectural image with great framing. The cotton-ball sky helps make it. Another of my favorites in this grouping.
5 - Weird but interesting art object, maybe on the ground or on the side of a building. Calls out for more information!
6 - Pleasing city scape with the bonus of water and some reflection.
7 - Nice architectural image, isolated and simple with good afternoon light.
8, 9, 10 - All the same scene, but I prefer the latter one (my 3rd favorite) with the harbor light in the shaft of the reflection, and the birds of course.
11 - Pleasing evening image, with sunset colors and a really cool sun reflection. I wish for a bit more water space at the bottom and less sky at the top.
12 - Less interesting than the other architectural images, probably because the light has diminished everywhere except the glass on the building to the left. If presented as part of a "disappearing sun" sequence, it has more clout, but without clear context, it becomes a well taken image that's less interesting than the others in the set. -
Like many people I suppose, I already find it slightly absurd to keep an exotic animal as pet in an urban home.
More absurd even is to carry it around in a small cage in the great wide open.
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A great duo of images.
The lizard with its link to the Grüner Veltliner (a very tasty grape; one of my favourites for white wine together with Sauvignon Blanc and Cattarato) is already a sight to behold. Great positioning you employed here, not looking at the lizard from the most expected angle, but looking over its shoulder towards vineyards and a picture postcard village.
The real lizard surprised me even more though: I have never encountered such a wonderfully coloured reptile in West-European nature.
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Simply wonderful elegance.
You used a perfect camera angle to not look down on the flower, but treat it as a worthy subject, as you would in a human portrait.
The curves are sensual, the colour stunning and your choice of a background with zero distraction is great.
I'm not usually a fan of photos of plants and flowers, but this one ticks all my boxes. -
The logs at the bottom don't bother me. At least not the horizontal ones.
I am less enamored with the vertical pole top far left and the vertical stump intruding from the left bottom. -
Thank you.