Hi, I already indicated my number one and two favourites from this month's PUG.
I really liked the gallery as a whole (like usual), but here are a few more that really caught my eye: "High Adrenalin" by Dan Mills: I love the pattern formed by all those looping, intersecting tracks and supports. And, you caught the rollercoaster at ~just~ the right moment, capturing the fury and excitement of the ride. What lens did you use? (you didn't mention it in your description) "California Adventure" by Steve Larson: Wow! Everything works so beautifully! The last glimmer of twilight, the sky almost completely dark on the right, the bright lights of the amusement park, mirrored on the water. It really captures what an amusement park is to me: fantastic whirling bright neon lights on a hot summer night. I don't know if it was a hot summer night when you took it, but I got that feeling from looking at it. Terrific! Thanks. "Lines" by Bernd Scheffler: This almost seems a study in artistic perspective. It's the placement of the two people that really make the shot. The patterns of the paving stones, the patterns of the lines, I don't know, there's just a very surreal feeling to the whole thing that I really like. It's one of those photos that I can't really explain why I like it so much, I just do! I think I'd like it a bit more if it were a little brighter, but that's only a small criticism; the composition more than makes up for that little shortcoming. "Vis-a-Vis" by Andreas Busse: Here's another almost surreal photo that I'll have trouble putting my feelings into words - I just know I like it a lot! I have no idea what these two objects are, but they look so stark standing there. Not knowing what they are makes me look at the composition all the more: the horizon bisecting the image, the shadow of the foreground object seeming to point out toward the background object. The beautiful deep blue sky. It just works very well for me as an almost abstract study in perspective and geometry. Thanks for posting it. "Blue Winter" by Johan Blixhavn Moeland: It looks so incredibly cold and forbidding! Maybe it's those bushes, which appear to either be bent over from a cold wind. Or, are they the tops of trees just peaking out from the top of blowing snow? Whatever, they are all that's there to break up about the bleakest landscape I've ever seen! I love the blue snow, graduating from dark to lighter, I love the sky, the last moments of twilight (or is it the first moments of daybreak?) with the horizontal dark strips of cloud. While the patterns and colours are beautiful, I think what mesmerizes me the most is that this is one of those photos that I stare at, and try to figure out what's going on; I try to make up a story or mental image of where it is, what time of day it is, what the few objects in it are. Then I give up, and just appreciate it's incredibly stark beauty in and of itself. Well, my dinner's ready. Maybe I'll comment on a few more in the upcoming days. regards, frank -- "The optimist thinks this is the best of all possible worlds. The pessimist fears it is true." -J. Robert Oppenheimer - This message is from the Pentax-Discuss Mail List. To unsubscribe, go to http://www.pdml.net and follow the directions. Don't forget to visit the Pentax Users' Gallery at http://pug.komkon.org .
