It is ideal, isn't it?
I love all bout this!
Great job.

A nice image, but I agree with the comment that noted a shallower depth of field, to isolate the bottles in the frame, could be a nice effect; also, did you try different lighting (such as from below; maybe that would be too much like a bar...)

Great image and colors. I do agree with the comments of more of DOF and try different lighting, but this is very nice and eye catching. I really like the textures of the wall and also in the reflection in the bottles.

nice compo

It looks very good in the thumbnail, but I don't like the background. The composition and perspective are both well-chosen.

Mark,

Beautiful work - I can't add anything worthwhile, I'm afraid. Wonderful.

Good light and Good luck,
Jon

Hi Jon and thank you. I took this on Market Street in San Francisco near the Embarcadero. The trolley travels pretty fast, so I had to grab this quickly. I stood where the light was good on the trolleys as they round the bend and hoped to get a good shot.

It nearly always starts with the light! Great light followed by great grab! Thanks for sharing your work and your thoughts regarding creating good work.

Sincerely,
Jon

One of the best here. Good job.

Rodion, thank you.

well, I imagine something other than an Asian woman from Tibet-Mongolia.
Maybe that's why I didn't find the pic unsuccesful

I love the expression on her face...

Great pic.

Thanks so much for your comments ^^
Uncommondepth's story is almost correct. This woman is from Sichuan (near Tibet). She was on her way to the Buddhism temple that day. She was taking a rest and making tibet butter tea beside the road. Although we cannot communicate in language, but her smile told me that she agree to let me take her picture.
jseligman and SeekingFocus, thanks for your advises. I will have a try.

the radiant emittance in the face is unbelievably

great work

Great capture - love it!

Best,
Jon

it's not the term
it's just the way I call it - it's the trick which was learnt by the artists even from the 16th century and so, certainly it appeared in early photography
3/4 means that its not 'pasport-headshot' strait and not a 'side-pic' - the persons head is turnt a little-bit to the right, as we see here too

I think I've seen this man somewhere before, I think I saw a picture of him somewhere practicing his craft. I'm almost positive in fact, I just wish I could remember where. Does he also do sculpture?

I like this classic portrait. Very nice.

His name is Newman and he owns Commedia Mask Company He has a large booth at the Oregon Country Fair every year. Maybe you saw him there. He does, in fact, sculpt too.

That is the same man I was thinking of, but it wasn't in Oregon. I think I saw something about him from a show in Canada. I seem to remember an article and a photo layout that someone had done...Maybe it was you that did the layout? I'm thinking it was someone else so forgive me if I am wrong.

Very wonderful portrait - great emotion and intelligence is communicated through your photo.

Best,
Jon

Goood. perfect as it is. well done

I'm not exactly sure what I'm looking at, but taking the picture as abstract, I really like it. The vagueness from the depth of field draws me in the picture and keeps me wondering what I'm looking at.

The Lensbaby looks like it would be fun to play with...how much of the distortion can you see thur the viewfinder or how much is trial and error??

BTW, I like this a lot!!

Great shot - wish i had a lensbaby - a lot of sports photographers use these now as a matter of course.

Best,
Jon

I have never been here... oh my god how many lights and colours are there!! Beautiful shot, man :)

Thank you, Aurora (what a beautiful name!). I dreamed to see this for many years and I could make it only last year, but I was not disappointed!

Starbucks rules!

:O)))

We said: constructive criticism, Daniel!

Whatever, I love Starbucks coffee (and I'm going to have one at this place tomorrow morning...)

;O)

very good composition. balanced and sharpened. good job.vic

I love shots like these...but like doilyboy said, I would add just a tad more light.

what a face! I'd also like to see a bit more of her hair, but it's an impressive portrait.

Worn minds in contrasty bw, it always works, isn't it? The task is to show this mind through the skin, and you did a great work here. Great shot.

great portrait.

Perfect, I wouldn't add or remove a thing. Great capture!!!

I dont like the blury figure. It distracts me.

The personne is a little bit too blury.
It's not necessary to put a personne; this landscape and its photography are beautiful enough.

The blurry person could have it place here in response to the fog. But I think this picture would have been better without this guy.

Well, I like the blurry figure.

;o)

I don't if I'm the only one who have noticed that the persons right hand - in it's two main positions - sort of looks like a pair of eyes of creepy creature, witch is very small or is sitting down. It's awesome. And you gotta admit; that a creepy creature there is wearing snickers is a bit surreal.

Such a simple shot but it works so well, I love the colors.

Terriffic. The color is great as is the DOF and clarity. Well done.

i love the colors, the size of them and the incredible dof, and i like the slight asymmetry.
Great work!

Wow. Love the colors! Good DOF. I like the the fuzzyness of the background created a nice texture.

Great background colour and DOF...like it

I agree the colors are fantastic!

I agree with all of the above. It's really 'moving', the water, which makes it nice to look at!

Very nice movement through the scene.

great colors

Still one of my absolute favourites of yours. Period.