Canon EOS 500, Canon 75-300 4-5.6 II, hand held, morning hours, one of the first photos taken with my new SLR

-- Robert Kuciak (newage@ica.net), February 21, 1999

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If it looks like a duck, walks like a duck and quacks like a duck - it must be a duck!

-- Paul Butkus (Paul1344@aol.com), February 21, 1999.

Well the exposure and color are good. The main thing that I don't like about the picture is that with the short grass, this pops out as a "duck in the park" picture. This makes the picture, though technically correct, seem boring.

Not that it's bad to take duck in the park pictures, I do it all the time. But it's rather like taking pictures in the zoo, the trick is to take the picture so that the viewer does not know that you are in the zoo or park.

I'm not trying to slam your picture, I'm glad you put it up, I just wanted to explain WHY I did not like the background, rather than just saying that the background was bad.

-- Matt Swope (vswope@voyager.net), February 22, 1999.