Alpine
by LevT

Comment by Cutter:
Looks good to me. I would simpy burn the top most section of the sky to offest/balance the dark mountains.

Alpine
by LevT

Comment by Bernard_Marx:
My soul just took a deep breath of fresh air. Thanks.

Date in BW
by LevT

Comment by emorgan49:
The real world isnt a Hallmark Card world is it? Here are two people. Are they on a date? Are they married? They seem totaly absorbed in something besides each other. Her uncomfortable looking neck seems to say she is deliberately distanceing. They are in a restaraunt maybe? but they have no food, only bottled water, The empty table? Where are their friends? Did they just leave? All the clues to the setting say happy gathering, food, good company. The people seem content to say something completely different.
PS- I really like the way the light walls on the woman.

Date in BW
by LevT

Comment by agenkin:

Originally posted by LevT: I did not really have any time or space to move around and adjust the composition (moments like this last seconds as you well know),

Not really a point, but I'm sure you know it. Imagine bringing an unfinished book to a publisher, explaining that you ran out of paper - will it make any difference? :) As a viewer, I'm quite uninterested to know about your difficulties at the time of capture (although, as a photographer, I may sympathise).

Originally posted by LevT: Not every scene demands perspective, strong diagonals and a rule of thirds. Here it needs the left-right symmetry and balance, IMO. Furthermore, I wish the front table and a chair were not there, even thought they add to the spontaneous feel of the photo.

I agree, in general, but not in the case of this picture.

Originally posted by LevT: I like your interpretation of the cakes as cartoon bubbles a lot. I thought about them more in terms of a contrast between what the date is supposed to be, symbolically, and what it really is here.

Interesting, no I didn't "read" the "disconnected date" idea in this picture. I thought that the two were simply reading menus (hence the ideas of cakes in their heads). Having looked at the picture closer, I see that the woman is, actually, reading a book (while the guy still seems to be studying a menu), but, still, I don't think that the photo conveys the disconnectedness.

Date in BW
by LevT

Comment by Melethia:
She strikes me as very stoic, very reserved. He a bit less so. Both observations are based on their postures. I wonder what they're reading? I like the incongruity of the cakes and the cushions. They don't seem to go together at all. I do very much like this.

Date in BW
by LevT

Comment by agenkin:
Not bad, idea-wise, the pictures of the cakes are like cartoon bubbles which show what each of the characters is thinking.

Photographically, I think that the shot is boring because most of the lines in the frame are either vertical or horizontal, and the plane of the wall and the two persons are parallel to the image plane. This gives a strong taste of an up-front shot, which ruins everything else for me.

Alpine
by LevT

Comment by sevilduvarci:
this is an amazing capture, lev. truely stunnung!

Alpine
by LevT

Comment by messerschmitt:
the overwhelming impact of nature like here really shines tru in the image

Date in BW
by LevT

Comment by Germaine:
One of your best shots. Haven't we seen this before?

And the ship sails on
by LevT

Comment by pineapple:
Is that Eeyore too? The little toy makes the image come to life - and the hat. I wonder if the limited DOF limits too the impact. Hard for me to know without seeing the same shot with a larger DOF. As it is, I can barely make out the boat and might not have done so without your apt title.