This is an interesting subject, but it cries out to be perfectly symmetrical. IMHO, once an image is close to perfectly symmetrical, you have to nail it. Otherwise it looks like a miss. You can't make this perfect in that regard, but you can come damn close by rotating it a wee bit counterclockwise and cropping to equal the show of brick on each side. Paul On Mar 10, 2007, at 8:18 PM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> Normally I will post on Sunday, but I have this ready today. > > Week of March 4-March 11. Nothing super special. I had two runners up > that > actually might be more interesting, but in each case when I got home > and at > looked at the pics I realized I had missed the mark. Just missed the > mark. I > analyzed each to figure out why and learned something. Well, that is > why I am > doing this right? To practice and to learn. So it was disappointing but > enlightening. > > And I have another pic that I probably like better than this one, > which I > will show later as a PESO. > > So I feel this is just a workman like, er workwoman, like shot. > > But I do like the colors and the implied commentary on small town > life. > > I visited Port Costa, the smallest town in Contra Costa County. Small > as in > the population seems to be about 150 people. Way, way back when it > was a > thriving port town (Carquinez Straight), but it hasn't been a port > for a long > time. Definitely a one horse town: one small main street, about six > crumbling > buildings, and only two really used -- for restaurants. And it is off > the > beaten track and a bit hard to get to. > > The town's Post Office has a small room one can go into to buy > stamps, but > they don't seem to be open the usual PO hours. It is in a warehouse > (built > 1886, first fireproof building in the county) that once stored wheat > for > shipping. But the PO also appears to have been there a long time. > > However, its PO boxes are available 24 hours a day, seven days a week. > :-) > > http://members.aol.com/eactivist/PAWS/pages/PAWMarch5.htm > > Comments welcome. > > Marnie aka Doe > > <BR><BR><BR>**************************************<BR> AOL now offers > free > email to everyone. Find out more about what's free from AOL at > http://www.aol.com. > > -- > PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List > [email protected] > http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net > -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net
