Who watches the watchers

[Gage]

That's my mum; she was taking pictures of the eagles that were waking up to fish in the early morning. I didn't have my telephoto lens yet, so I couldn't get any good shots of them... so I took pictures of her, instead. Turn about is fair play, photographer-woman!

[Analog6]

Good one, well composed and I like the effect the cold gives.

[Tim N]

Brrrrr ... looks REALLY cold !

[admin]

I like this a lot, for two reasons...and it is a good example of what photography can do.
The first is I live in a very temperate part of the world. I'd have to drive quite a few hours to see landscape and even patches of snow like this. But years ago, I lived in Europe for year, and later for a few months in Canada. When I look at that image, it takes me straight back to the feelings and expriences of theose two places, and it is a good (good, I said, not weird) feeling.

On a totally different level, the image is a little soft and out of focus, but in back and white and with the clothing, it could easily be placed in the 60's, 70's, 80's - so it is kind of timeless.

All of this leads me to  look at the image with more than a cursory glance. That's what I like about photography.
And Gage, if your mum is up for it get her on the forum, she's a shooter too!

[Gage]

Thank you, Mark! She's a rather wily person to get a shot of so for that alone I'm pretty proud of it and you just iced the cake and put a candle in it. 

I did show my mum the forum immediately when I saw her (what can I say; new forum, I've been ranting about it to people) and I'll try to get her on - I think it would do her well to try to upkeep with an online forum and she has some amazing photos to share, especially with the raptors.

[OZZI-BLOKE]

I like the image, and like Mr Admin Dude says, even with it being a bit soft it still looks good in B & W.

[swifty]

Hi gage,
I'm a great BW fan and your image is a good example of it.
I think the softness adds to the image and there is good contrast of light and shadows.
Just wondering I'm not really seeing any part of the image very sharp (maybe the foreground?) Was the shot front focused, a soft lens effect or post processing? (again I'll re-iterate I think the softness ADDS to the image but was wondering how it was created)

[Gage]

Just wondering I'm not really seeing any part of the image very sharp (maybe the foreground?) Was the shot front focused, a soft lens effect or post processing? (again I'll re-iterate I think the softness ADDS to the image but was wondering how it was created)

I'm not entirely certain, actually. I was cycling through a lot of the DSLR's functions to compensate for the weather and early morning lighting, most of which I don't remember which was which in each image now. 

There was no post beyond the selective color removal; my guess is I went manual focus and "missed" to the extreme foreground because none of the others have what this was does - it's either over/under exposures or unsteadiness due to shaking from the cold. It probably wasn't the latter, I think, since that was one of the tripod-mounted shots.

[Derek]

Regardless of your intentions this has turned out to be a great image with a lovely classic feel to it.