Hi Guys! Kodak E200, great tasting mushrooms, and dirty knees. tell me what ya think... tim BTW the original has more detail in the highlights, and warmer lighter shadows. I corrected as much as I had patience too. :-) tt

-- Tim Tregubov (timofei@cyberportal.net), October 14, 1998

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This is a very nice picture. I love the gradually smaller and less focused mushrooms leading off to the left of the front pair. The grass on the right adds nothing to the picture but cropping it out leaves the picture unbalanced so I think it's better off cropped as you have it. The grass and that one twig at the base of the shorter front mushrooms are the only things I'd want to see different. Good work!

-- Brent Hutto (BHutto@InfoAve.Net), October 14, 1998.

Reminds me of those dancing mushroom people in a Walt Disney movie I saw when I was wee. I like it.

-- Rob S. (oeanda@hotmail.com), October 15, 1998.

I like the effect of have the blades of blured grass frame the mushrooms. But it would have been better not to of had the large piece going along the stems of the mushrooms. Nice light by the way.

-- Tait Stangl (taits@usa.net), October 15, 1998.

In my opinion, the lighting in this photograph is outstanding. Normally, I would be distracted by the number of out-of-focus tidbits in the background, but the lighting is sooo attractive that it allows the background to create strong leading lines. Exceptional composition as well.

The only distracting element I could see is the large diagonal out-of-focus piece of grass in the right foreground.

-- Jim DeLuco (j.deluco@neccsd.com), October 15, 1998.

thanks for all the comments. there was a stump to the left of the image which cast its shadow directly behind the mushrooms. very nice i agree. :-) i wonder whether a good ethics in nature photography discussion might be on whether it is proper to eat the object of the photos.

-- Tim Tregubov (timofei@cyberportal.net), October 16, 1998.

Tim, your ethics question would really gain importance if the object were people!

-- Zdenek Bakstein (zb@zzz.cz), October 21, 1998.