wow - now that is awesome!

wow, a little bit surreal. i like it!

Wow! This is like something out of a dream. Love it!

I'm gonna have to say wow too. ;)

freaky clouds! It looks like the sky is about to fall down ;-)

Little Maori fella?
Strong looking boy there.

Good catch there Mark.

I don't really appreciate this portrait. For me the background is too disturbing espacially the lighting car behind the hands. However the expression of the man was well captured !

Sylvain, you've just confirmed everything I thought about this photo. This guy was painting pictures at a street fair, so this is a bit of a snapshot. I thought his expression outweighed the imperfections, though. Thanks for your comments.

A bit of lens correction on this to get the verticals straight and this would have been a cracking shot! Colours and tone are good.

Yeah, I couldn't quite get the lines straight. I'm still pretty happy with it, though. Thanks for your comments.

Flamenco guitarists, Seville, Spain, October 2006. Handheld, two-second exposure.

This does very little for me. The blur is way over done. Seated guitarists are not dynamic subjects. I think this would be much more interesting if only their arms and hands were blurred to this extent.

It may be that the light was so low your lens required a 2 s. exposure. In so, you did the best you could. If this was the case, now you know why people use fast (< f 2.0) lenses.

willie

You make good points, willie. As you guessed, I was shooting in low light. Although I could have gotten away with maybe a one-second exposure with my glorified point-and-shoot, I chose a longer exposure to experiment with blurring. Thanks for your comments.

Realy too blury to me, too sad, it could be a good photo, lights and feelings seem to be great.

Great photo - I agree with everyone else. Nice composition, nice work!

Yeah it creates a great sense of drama

Nicely done. The sky may be a tad unnatural looking, but I still really like the dramatic flavor you achieved.

Interesting shot. Good tone

I would like to see some motion in those sails. That would improve the shot.

La Jolla Cove, San Diego, California, February 2007

National City, California, February 2007. Somehow, these castoff pieces look to me like forlorn little "Star Wars" drones. How much of a nerd does that make me?

North of Palm Springs, California, March 2007