Pictures

My visual explanation of suggestion.

Hi Alia,

This was what I was suggesting for the composition. Please pardon the mess, just wanted to illustrate what I thought would make a stronger composition. Mind, I'm not suggesting trying to piece it into something like I did. But if it was possible to snap a few different versions... Then again, perhaps that wouldn't have been possible if there were distracting elements to the right and below.

(Robert: can we turn on posting of images in comments? I'd have rather posted this in a comment to the earlier post).

A quick question, how many here are relying on the comment RSS feed to keep up with comments on pictures other than those you uploaded?
Would anyone prefer having an email sent to them if a comment is placed on any picture?

Is that better?

Hi everyone. I'm Alia and I am a friend of Robert and Irena. This is my first upload of a photo, so I chose something very simple to get started.
This was taken on a beach at Port Macquarie which is on the north coast of NSW.

The lone seagull having his morning drink appealed to me as the man was walking past.

Another early shot from the series following my re-edit.

Ok, how's this one? Made it a little darker and got rid of the few hot spots.

The Path Less Followed

Not a new shot - I've been re-editing some of the early shots from the yellow lines series.

Apologies for the gap in posting and commenting. I'm just beginning to catch up now.

The Grevillia is flowering and we have these chattering chaps in our backyard daily having a feed.

I've been playing with this shot for two years now, never really satisfied with the result. I find it very difficult to get the tonality and colors right. So when LightRoom 2 came, I gave it another try, and this time I'm closing in on something. I still have to work a little more on some details, but I think I'm getting there. I think this version may be a bit oversharpened, but my eyes are a bit tired right now so I don't really see it.