Many excellent pics here. I especially like the opening Galway pic, the church ruin with the cross, and the abandoned farmhouse. But many other nice shots as well. Paul On Aug 1, 2011, at 3:10 PM, Stan Halpin wrote:
> > On Jul 31, 2011, at 4:19 PM, Mark Roberts wrote: > >> I finally got a gallery of shots together from our trip to Ireland a >> couple of weeks ago. Have a look if you're so inclined. >> http://www.robertstech.com/galleries/ireland2011/ >> > > Thanks for sharing Mark. I know I am not alone in looking forward to your > galleries. > > You didn't ask for comments, but I'll throw some out FWIW. > From this set, the individual shots that particularly caught my eye were > Graffiti in Galway, the Abandoned Farmhouse, Rathlin Island with Fair Head in > the Distance, Inside Bushmill's Distillery, Trees and Roadway (I wish the > figure[?] on the road were a bit closer), Sheep in the Countryside, Happy > Days in Belfast, XXIV, Church Detail 3, and Celtic Whiskey Shop Dublin. Each > of these was quite nice as a stand-alone image and they provided welcome > detail in the midst of the shots of broad sweeping countryside and coastline. > Of the three Dunluce Castle shots, I thought the first worked best and would > have been enough; of the two Coastline and Natural Arch shots, I thought the > first worked best and would have been enough; of the four flowing water shots > I thought the first worked best and would have been enough. Apart from these > instances of what I saw as redundancy, I thought the gallery as a whole was > very very nice. A nice rhythm to the presentation, a nice variation in tone > and content of the images, and the set as a whole tells a nice story. You and > others may critique the grey sky, the mid-day light, etc. And if you had gone > there with the intention of producing gallery-ready fine art, there might be > some merit to such critiques. But this is a very fine example of very good > "what I did on my vacation" images. > > stan > -- > PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List > [email protected] > http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net > to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow > the directions. -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
