"Air & Water - Durham" (http://pug.komkon.org/01oct/clouds1.html) Nice light! These sorts of shots seem to come and go in a few moments, so you have to grab them quick! With the different layers of clouds this one has a very nice three dimensional feel to it.
"Coming..." (http://pug.komkon.org/01oct/JodkrSm3.html) Very dramatic, especially the bright area at top right. The ragged cloud edges near the horizon are also interesting. This shot also seemed other-worldly and weird, but perhaps the foreground is a bit too mundane and this-worldly and could have been cropped out. An alternative would be to crop out the land but leave the lamp-posts by chopping the bottom 20% of the photo - that might give a very surreal effect! "Lightning bolt" (http://pug.komkon.org/01oct/41843a.html) Another Kiwi in the USA! Perhaps like me you're amazed by the lightning storms over here, sometimes with several flashes a second. The purple color is fantastic, I assume it's natural? I haven't tried taking lightning shots, but perhaps shooting the clouds and the area where the lightning's hitting the ground might be especially effective. I guess the ultimate would be shooting down from a hilltop, but it might not be too good for your health. "Ions..." (http://pug.komkon.org/01oct/ions.html) Oh baby, this just has to be my favorite shot of all in this month's gallery! I think having the tower in the shot really adds some impact, and the color is just fantastic. "Ice Wall" (http://pug.komkon.org/01oct/glaciar.html) Nice! Having the people in the front for scale is a great idea, something I don't do often enough in my own shots. I'm surprised you only used a 135mm lens, the perspective looked a lot more squashed than that - I guess it shows how huge the wall really is, not just a trick of the camera! "Water Power" (http://pug.komkon.org/01oct/Breaker2.html) St Helena? Are you kidding? Man, PUG members sure do get around! Or were you exiled there for some unspeakable crime committed in Oz? As your title says, it really does convey a terrific sense of power. "Water Colours" (http://pug.komkon.org/01oct/Wuerm.html) Excellent! I've never thought of exposing moving water for such a long period of time. The result is great. "Beautiful Blues" (http://pug.komkon.org/01oct/lake.html) I thought this was a great photo even before I saw that it was in New Zealand. In fact, I even thought this was a great photo when I was thinking it was taken in Australia! The angle of the water line at the center of the photo does make it look as if the photo might be slightly tilted; it's very hard to say whether that's correct or whether the shot is level, because the human eye does seem to latch onto water as the final arbiter of what is or isn't level (and, of course, walls and other vertical structures also define what is level in the vertical realm). On very rare occasions I've even slightly tilted a photo in the photo editor so that it "looks" level to the human eye, even though I knew it wasn't exactly that way in real life (sorry to those people for whom doing such a thing is a crime). Oh yeah, and are those finger prints near the bottom of the photo? Richard. home page: www.richard-seaman.com _________________________________________________________________ Get your FREE download of MSN Explorer at http://explorer.msn.com/intl.asp - This message is from the Pentax-Discuss Mail List. To unsubscribe, go to http://www.pdml.net and follow the directions. Don't forget to visit the Pentax Users' Gallery at http://pug.komkon.org .
