I hope that I did this right, last time I messed it up BIG...

-- Gloria Hopkins (gdh@gate.nte), October 25, 2000

Answers

This was taken in Sanibel (Fl) at Blind Pass on the left side of the jetty last Saturday. (EOS3, 500 f/4, Provia100F@200). Apologies for the scanning dust.

-- Gloria Hopkins (gdh@gate.net), October 25, 2000.

Gloria,

The light is incredible! The subtlety of the details is wonderful, especially given that white objects are often poorly exposed erasing any detail. Lovely.

-- Yuri Huta (yhuta@essential.org), October 25, 2000.

This is beautiful!! The light, composition and subject are all superb. The only change I would even consider would be to crop the water from the bottom when printing it. I hope you won't let Gus get anywhere near it (yes, I had to check out your website after seeing this).

Karl Lehmann Lost World Arts

-- Karl Lehmann (outback@gte.net), October 26, 2000.

Gloria, This is STUNNING. Beautiful light and excellent portrayal of main subject. Maybe I'm thinking too grandiose, but I see a possible magazine cover for this - Audubon, or something similar. Keep these images coming - I can't wait to see more.

-- Rod Sorensen (sorenser@mfldclin.edu), October 26, 2000.

My only wish is for the head of the lower erget to be more visible. I guess I am asking too much here.

Excellent shot!

-- Alan Yeo (nature_sg@yahoo.com), October 26, 2000.

Fantastic Picture! Everything about it is great.

-- Nick Stevens (nickstevens@hotmail.com), October 26, 2000.

Great action and composition shot. Glad you posted. Don't take my opinion over Karl's (I've checked his pictures) but I think the water at the bottom completes and adds that extra touch to the the picture.

-- M. Huber (rurpho@tele-net.net), October 26, 2000.

Thanks very much everyone. I greatly appreciate your critiques, your time and your thoughts. Karl: I tried to view your site but couldn't get through. I would love a direct URL if you wouldn't mind passing it along. Thanks again. Gloria

-- Gloria Hopkins (gdh@gate.net), October 26, 2000.

Gloria, Sorry, I typed that link in wrong. The correct URL is www.lostworldarts.com . And looking again I think I agree with M. Huber, but I still think I would crop from the bottom. Maybe about half of the water, eliminating the small rock. This is only a suggestion, the image is great as it is.

-- Karl Lehmann (outback@gte.net), October 27, 2000.

Amazing picture! I wouldn't crop a bit. I only wish the head of Egret1 weren't touching Egret2, that would have made the picture absolutely perfect ! I also am amazed in the detail present in the white areas.

Gloria, what is the address of your website? Do you usually rate Provia at 200?

Thanks for posting it.

-- David Lee (dsl@warlock.sc.intel.com), October 27, 2000.

Hi David: Thanks for your critique. I agree about the head of the egret. I also wish there were more separation between the birds. And, there is a fish in the top bird's bill that you can't see very well. My website is: http://www.gloriasbirds.net. I hope that you enjoy my images and thanks for asking!

-- Gloria Hopkins (gdh@gate.net), October 28, 2000.

Don't we all love a good f(l)ight??? yall are fucked up infatuates!!!! So there. Anybody still reading to see if I can make meself hard on yall???? Well, lemme mention a few names who have done it better than me though I can see for meself that:

1: technique is prothesis no sane person would wanna burden his ambient circles with (ref: L Rickels) Your senses would dole sharpness among background and foreground, inner and outer as no stuckstaketec ever can or will

2: National Geographic has caught the schizoitis of capitalism, polluting away in NH (seen that meself for sure); one reason for my (and Robert Lawlor's) second thought on art and representation.

3: go to a site called siliconhell and see what our lovely upbeaters all eat and beat up in the sense Ivan Illich calculated mobility.

-- piet bouter (poetpiet@hotbot.com), November 04, 2000.

Piet: You wanna try that one more time??? I have no idea what you are talking about. Gloria

-- Gloria Hopkins (gdh@gate.net), November 06, 2000.

I can't cleary see are the birds jumping in the air or are they standing on the rock. I suppose they have just jumped to the air. But the base from which they have jumped is not visible in the picture. This distracts me in this picture.

-- Erkki Aropelto (Erkki.Aropelto@icl.fi), November 07, 2000.

Another obnoxious pseudo-intellectual!

Just what the world needs now!

-- Anonymous Coward (big.dork@seductive.com), November 15, 2000.

Hi Gloria; excuse me for answering tardily; I also need an apology for the abrasive tone from before, seeing that you dare request more (and trusting I can deliver better I guess) so civilly. Well,here goes: perhaps inspired by the mating dance (or rival rout, not sure which) I felt prompted to polemicize about where our symbolicized rut rituals (spar, joust, cheat, shoot, shimmy, prance and pace impositioning routines) have taken us, I decided to (once again) draw attention to some unsavory and conveniently overlooked aspects of the friendly fire photography phenomenon (hinting they are about as hampered with promethean curses as most forms of ballistics; chiefly in the form of pollution and artistic ego bloat and bias in general but not in this, your case, making my outburst doubly unwarranted). I suppose working with all round beneficial and truly wholistic field effects (of which the colour ones are but a small side one)like those which happen during compost building (not necessarily profiting from a focusing into heaps; a distributively local principle has a place here) makes people yearn for ways to carry such high season hue, fragrance and cheer into wintry scenes somehow (and they get so attached to the substitutes that they tolerate damage to the real thing into the bargain; an argument seeming to prove we are hellbent on mutating to complete artificiality). Handling fire is long long learning process and I hope no never bother you with inflammatory pronouncements again. . . .but you know . .Florida; a fight, a polarization .. . .black vote. .. . .I was ..s.

-- piet bouter (pensievepiet@netscape.net), December 22, 2000.

Compost. Good for the garden.

Nice shot, Gloria.

-- Scott (bliorg@yahoo.com), December 23, 2000.

I guest compost is compost!

-- Armin "J.R." McKee (jrmckee@circarta.com), November 07, 2003.

Uh... I'm just looking for some damn pictures of pitbulls fighting. Is that so hard to ask for? Damnit! It's not like I'm askinf for an Escelade full of hoes. I just want some good ol' pitbull fighting pictures. Why is it so damn hard to find!

Piss off world!

Yours Truly, R2RO

-- Terwiliger Beaufardo Worthingham III (r2ro@yahoo.com), March 22, 2004.

Who in there right mind would sit there while two dogs beutiful animals take it out and fight for nothing screw you damented minded punks

-- TIna (Payasa213@yahoo.com), February 21, 2005.