I think you'll see a very strong emotional connection when some others from the series get posted. Just another few days, a week at the most, before the new computer is sitting on the desk <YIPPEE!)
thanks for the comments ... they're always welcome. shel frank theriault wrote: > > I like it, a lot. > > I know this is something we've talked about off-list recently, but I really > like the way the background "comes together" - the buildings on the left, > the overhang on the right, the lamposts at the back of the square, the > pedestrians off in the distance - it all works in a very pleasing way. > Doesn't detract from or distract one away from the subjects, but enhances > them, almost pushes the viewer back to the middle, if you know what I mean. > > That wall in the foreground, the one she's sitting on is wonderful; once > again, drawing the viewer right to the subject. Great angle. > > I can see how you must work on all of this (where I don't - but this isn't > about me). I'm sure this all didn't "just happen". > > I just went and looked again, and noticed the plant on the right. This is > all such wonderful composition! > > As for the subjects, well, I have to admit, to me, they aren't quite as > strong as the rest of the photo. I don't know why, but the fact that they > seem to be looking off to something else, with one of them pointing in the > direction that they're looking, for some reason I'm not thrilled with that. > It doesn't make it a bad photo; far from it, but I wish they were looking > at each other, or maybe at the camera. I keep wondering what they're > looking at. Or is that the point? > > Still, a very strong photograph, but I seem to be longing for an emotional > connection between the two of them that I'm not feeling. Maybe it'll come. > I do like it a lot, though. > > I must now leave the house with my camera, and take piccies on the way down > to the lab to get a PAW that I hope to post tonight... >
