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Thanks for taking the time to comment.

thanks, Bill

Lucky it belongs to me. West, I went to look at your profile, West, and you've chosen to remain anonymous. I routinely block anonymous posters.

It was shot on film on a very misty-foggy morning - and thanks..

Thank you both.

Hmong man walking to market - hills near Sa Pa Vietnam from archives - probably shot in 2000

where in Colorado?

While this is undoubtedly true, the so-called ’rules’ of photography’ are a disjointed mess. They don't give any guidance for understanding how to actually start with composition. And, of course, they don't all apply all the time. And the Rules can be broken. And these Rules are most handy...

I may have hit it lucky with this guy down the street. I spent 20 minutes on the phone yesterday trying to pry a printer profile from a lab that portrays itself as a pro lab. I received some reference prints and they had a distinct lack of mid-tome contrast. The lights and darks were OK but...

I have mixed feelings about that genre of photography. It is legal and so I would defend his right to make it but I find that objectification of women repellant personally. His pictures are technically decently done yet they are rarely interesting as photographs. Since I have that same...

Thanks for the input. However fun the idea of printing my own 'stuff'' is, reality has slapped me around a bit. I've been looking at printers fairly extensively and have come to the conclusion that, for now at least, I will use the guy down the block. He has been returning good quality prints...

not a great photo but what a car!

I don't care about a lot of kinds of photography - in fact most kinds - so the issue of 'like' or 'dislike' doesn't often intervene. If I see some possible changes that I think could make the picture better, I try to say it in a non-judgmental way, suggesting changes. Sometimes I see things...

prograf?

When I moved to NYC to a small apartment, having a large printer and stores of supplies seemed too much of a bother. I've been looking for a good place to send work. There is an excellent, albeit expensive, print shop locally. I have a large project coming up and and I wanted to investigate ways...

Critique is not, at least to me, whether I like a photo or not, it is suggestions or ideas on how that image could be made better. Like or dislike is something else again.

I've often wondered what happened to him. I' ve just assumed he irritated passersby until someone beat the crap out of him.

Economical enough - in Cuba They are a unique combination of beauty, grace, strength

Dancers, Cuban National Ballet

oh, sorry. I will remove it.

It looks tilted to me also. (look at the joining of the barn doors.) It seems there is a basic clash between the attraction of the super-red barn and the prominence of the truck. Which one is more important?

That could be the 'vivid' setting. The first few of those shots and the ones of Conowingo Dam are familiar to me; I lived just 4 or 5 miles south of the author. Another interesting feature of that damn is the walkway that runs along its face about 30 feet off the water. Huge carp (up to 3 feet...

It is a set of color samples and associated software that allows you to match a set of photos by including the color target in each scene. X-RiteColorChecker Passport Photo (Black)

Quite lovely, very nice and sharp , excellent DOF. Note the differences in color, the top right being the most cold and undersaturated, the bottom left seeming the most natural color. This might be the time to consider a color checker

Andy, thanks for taking the time to look and to comment. Your framing suggestions may well have been a real improvement. Lew

I was walking up Lexington Ave on my way home and crossed 30th St, which was closed to traffic. There was a man managing construction traffic and we struck up an intermittent conversation. He was usually a welder working at height but just picking up some odd hours managing the influx of...

I wrote this somewhere else and thought it might be useful here. "The famous American cultural critic, H.L. Mencken, once said that, “For every complex problem there is an answer that is clear, simple, and wrong.” My attitude on street pictures is: I don't want to be part of the photo, I...

There are many other possibilities that are not passive-aggressive.

I treat every situation pretty much like Ann does. If I see a situation where I may make a meaningful image I do my best to get the shot within the same constraints as Ann. If I asked permission for every shot, that would make every image into street portraiture, inserts me into the situation...

You really want to elude the question. Assuming you actually do take pictures and have a camera and both your camera and you were ready, would you take the shot?

Disregarding the other red-herring answers for brevity's sake, you are saying that if you were carrying a camera at the ready and saw someone running down the street, followed by 'people shouting' you wouldn't take a picture because he might not want it taken - or he might be a 'victim'?

It comes down to judgement not blind recognition that culture or religious trump all other factors.

Does one give medicine, treatment or care to a patient who doesn't want it? If the subject was fleeing from a crime, does that count? If the subject was being given a 'perp walk' does that count? Drawing a line in the sand that the subject's opinion must take precedence in all situations seems...

How does a street photographer function in a situation where the transient ideas in a subject's mind can be known?

Yes, of course, but they are important only as far as I need to be mindful or careful about how the individuals might respond.

I don't think that is a good comparison and is certainly not as simple. Forget religious or cultural beliefs. Let's say that the subject, whom you know to be a reasonably terrible and ignorant person because you are related, has a tightly held belief that, if his or her picture is taken, he (or...

I actually was looking for responder's personal attitudes, how they balanced the desire for a shot against what the factors of the subject's beliefs. I do understand the issues of laws and dangers.

Just to explore what people think. What if: 1) if you had the opportunity to take an image where the subject was all right but close onlookers would almost certainly think it was wrong? 2) if you had the opportunity to take an image where the subject would never know that a photo had been taken?

I have lately been in a Muslim country where many potential subjects definitely don't want their photos taken because of a disputed passage in their scriptures. Is Picture Taking Forbidden in Islam? | Synonym What do you think about this?

Nice photo and nicely caught instant. I suggest that, if you reconvert this photo, you make the dress less bright.

The mountains in the back are the High Atlas, as barren and unpleasant a place I've ever travelled. The mountains are mostly shale and the only decent road through is twisty, horrible and subject to routine slides. The government is working at straightening it out so there is heavy equipment all...

I'm on a phone so I'm limited. I posted a new clip that includes part of a sinking awning somewhere above. I try to stick close to standard aspect ratios and include only things that add to a story.

Texas Dim Sum is rabbit wrapped in sand.

Me, too. I went out for Chinese food last night. Thanks, Robert. I always hope that other people see what I see Is Texas that different from Manhattan? I will post more of Chinatown soon. Went for Dim Sum at fabulous place and stuffed myself.

Omar, you are right. As it turns out, I had clipped and pasted carelessly and left out a few nice details. Here is what I should have posted. (I don't think I would ever have cropped because that would bring the grocer's head further up and to the right. ) Thanks a lot for taking the time to...

Thanks. I love NY.

Ibtissam Al Mericha - a Berber woman who models part-time and runs an animal shelter full time. Beautiful in every way.

I have no idea, they just appear and fade