Animals from my latest roadtrip

[norbs]

#1

#2

#3

#4

#5
Sticking to
#6
the rules
#7
Sorry dial uppers.

[stubbsy]

Todd

I see you've amended your number of embedded images after being requested by Geoff to do so, but note your commentary (sticking to the rules - sorry dial uppers). I just want to make something clear. The guidelines about a maximum of four images in a post aren't JUST about those on dial up, it's also about the fact that this isn't an image gallery or vanity posting site - that's what flickr or smugmug or pbase or whatever is for. Images should be posted here for two reasons - principally for review and critique and perhaps to give a taste of a recent portfolio of shots you have on your web site.

I have as big an ego as the next person and would love to share the best of the 6,466 images from my trip to NZ last February, but I resist the urge to bore everyone shitless on the forum. For me 4 images allows me plenty of latitude to give a flavour of the work without overdoing it. If the work is good enough it will entice people to go to my SmugMug site for more.

Finally I find any more than a small number of images in a post impossible to critique and suspect others may be the same but then maybe I'm just getting old

Edit: To make sure no one misunderstands my comments above. I am not suggesting Todd is egotistical, a vanity poster or boring us shitless with his images. What I am saying is that the posting guidelines are to ensure that people who may fit into that category don't impact on our pleasure in viewing images here.

[stubbsy]

And now for some commentary on your images:

#1 - good use of the lens to distort the image for dramatic effect. I'd like to see a little more detail in the horse - perhaps a curve adjustment

#2 - great image and well suited to black and white. Nice composition - I get the feeling these guys are ready for my dinner plate

#3 - doesn't excite me. The background donkey pulls me away from the foreground one. And his ears have been chopped off (ouch)

#4 - I'm not sure what the image is about for this one I guess. It's composition is a slittle sloppy (too much space at top, car chopped off etc). And yes I know there are a whole lot of dogs in a cage. It had the ptential to be like #2, but doesn't realise that potential.

#5 - I like this a lot. Only tiny (and it's a very tiny) niggle is that I'd have liked a shot without the tree. can't have everything

#6 - Composition again for me. I'd have straightened or cropped to remove the beam in the bottom left corner. I'm not really sure this image suits the B & W conversion either.

#7 - Superb. great DOF, well exposed, well composed.

[macka]

Love #1 - very fun image. Great colour in the sky.