Canon EOS A2, 100-300L, Velvia, at about f/22.

-- Frank Kolwicz (bb389@lafn.org), April 14, 1999

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This is just a beautiful shot. I love the light, the color, the textures and and composition. I also like the fact that you are showing the full frame. I would include this in my list of favorites seen here. If you beat up on Frank a few times, he goes out and brings in a shot like this!

-- Mike Green (mgprod@mindspring.com), April 15, 1999.

Since I don't know or have much of a pre-conceived idea of what I'm looking at, comments are a shot in the dark. However, in several areas the lighting seems to fail to reveal the pattern.

-- Larry Korhnak (lvk@gnv.ifas.ufl.edu), April 15, 1999.

Larry,

Is your monitor gamma-corrected for viewing images?

My monitor shows detail everywhere that's needed. There are areas where the only detail is grains of sand which won't reproduce here at 50K jpeg and you probably wouldn't want to download a 5 or 10 Meg file that might show the sand, if I even had a site to put such a file up.

Keith Clark's image has a gray scale attached to help set your monitor's brightness level. BTW, I like Keith's presentation - the black frame and the gray scale area great way to help us view images. But I must note that some publications don't like black borders around submitted images as it makes the colors look better, but not the way they appear on a page when surrounded with white.

Frank

Frank

-- Frank Kolwicz (bb389@lafn.org), April 15, 1999.

Excellent textures, patterns and tones. Great shot!

-- Garry Schaefer (schaefer@pangea.ca), April 16, 1999.

As a geologist, I respond to this photograph in several ways. It shows aeolian cross bedding.

As a photographer, it is a pitty that the scan does not do justice to the original image, probably.

-- Paulo Bizarro (pbizarro@cggp.pt), April 20, 1999.

I lose detail at about square 19 (starting from white) on Keith's nice image. I think it's a personal perception problem.

-- Larry Korhnak (lvk@gnv.ifas.ufl.edu), April 21, 1999.

Frank,

Very tasteful ..looks almost edible. A strong inspiration for images to come, in a 'food-for-thought' kind of way. The extrenely 'level' lighting with a little bit of indirect light is worth exploring some more. Nothing to remark on composition..

-- Albin Hunia (a.hunia@dlg.agro.nl), April 22, 1999.