-- Tim Lindenbaum (farmert@elpaso.net), February 12, 1999

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Location: Summit Lake, Mt. Evans, Colorado Camera: Olympus OM2-S Lens: 28mm Film: Kodak 100 ISO Negative Exposure: Unrecorded This was photographed about 15 minutes before I was bombarded with sleet and hail from an afternoon thunderstrom

-- Tim Lindenbaum (farmert@elpaso.net), February 12, 1999.

I would crop a bit from the bottom, that bit of blue streak reflected in the water at the shoreline is distracting, and detracts from the neat pattern formed by the snowline and its reflection. I also think a vertical shot here would work a bit better to focus in on the pattern formed by the reflection, just pick up the first rock to the right to give it a bit of balance.

-- Rose-Marie Burke (rmbehr@istar.ca), February 12, 1999.

Tim either something is wrong with my viewer or there are heavy compression artifacts in this image. I see a fairly normal sky and water but in-betweem I see big pixelated sections. Was this compressed in some special way? Nice composition but I can't tell if the slopes are talus or wildflowers the pixelation is so bad.

-- Micheal F. Kelly (Kellys@Alaska.net), February 12, 1999.

Michael, I'm at a loss for an explanation as to what you're seeing. I saved it as a standard JPEG file interchange (*.jpg) with 24bit RGB color model. I believe the compression ratio was around 8:1. I have my monitor set to display 800 X 600 resolution and 24bit color and it looks fine. I would be interested to know if anyone else is seeing what you're seeing. If so, I could rescan it.

-- Tim Lindenbaum (farmert@elpaso.net), February 13, 1999.

Everything is symmetrical in this image, which makes it less interesting.

-- Shun Cheung (shun@worldnet.att.net), February 13, 1999.

It's a nice photo sure enough, but a graduated ND filter may have helped the sky/clouds (which to me appears a little burnt out).

-- Edward C. Nemergut (ecnemerg@iupui.edu), February 13, 1999.