Hi Mark,
Hot - Interesting. I would have thought this would have looked a bit floaty, with the black background, but with the way the bottom left merges into the background you've avoided that issue nicely. Gets a
from me.
Light - Another interesting shot, with the way the flame seems to have areas of different colour, clearly defined, rather than a gradient. I also like the blue vs orange.
Crowd - Heh, I'm probably going to go with that saying too, when I get around to it. Good use of complimentary colours.
Decay(ing) - Liking the shot, liking the B&W processing, but the wood looks in too good condition to really sell decay to me.
Good to get out of your comfort zone though with a different type of image, and in itself it is a good strong image.
Free Week - NGK, lurvely. Is that some new fangled type of electrode? I don't think it would work in my RD. How do you set the gap?
Nicely done with the strong reflections.
Whole - Works for me. Blue sky captured well without noise, and sufficient detail in the fighters.
Fragile - Cool shot, like the foreground colours vs the background. I would have gone with a wider DoF as I would like to have seen the whole of the leaves in focus, rather than just one. You have plenty of distance to the background so I think that the separation would still have been achieved.
Squash - Chuckle, my squash bat would be even older still. Nicely exposed, but a bit floaty.
Fragile Climate
