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Critique By:
Katrin Aasa (K:740)
10/20/2003 9:48:44 AM
Do I see some shadow on the horizon?Clouds?It's beautiful.
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Critique By:
xy x (K:41915)
10/18/2003 2:10:17 PM
great perspective and view, well done
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Critique By:
Daniel Navarro (K:40)
10/16/2003 2:40:21 AM
I like this emptiness.
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Critique By:
Katrin Aasa (K:740)
10/15/2003 2:46:15 AM
Yess!I know.Jonathan Raban and BAD LAND.I read this book some months ago.Your photos....Exactly!I's this book on your photos. Am I very wrong?I begin to SEE these photos.
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Critique By:
Sean Armenta (K:242)
10/12/2003 11:04:38 AM
i find the patch of grass on the bottom left a bit distracting...perhaps a tighter crop?
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Critique By:
Katrin Aasa (K:740)
10/12/2003 9:50:58 AM
You are happy - you like what YOU like.It's not easy to understand why these photos and what do you want to say(sorry...).Without plastic bottle - like movie.Soft and some kind of velvet touch...Looks like they don't have busy...In our days?Lifestyle or life itself?
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Critique By:
Jayr Luciano jr (K:115)
10/5/2003 10:58:59 PM
beautiful B&W...congratulations
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Critique By:
Donald McKay (K:340)
10/5/2003 7:32:02 PM
I'm putting the essay onto this site, a few images at a time. The entire span of the photographs is from 1993 to 2003, and right now, unless you find one of the readings of the text in progress, you will only find the images here. I'll be travelling through the late fall in Colorado, Wyoming and Nebraska to fill out the material, and close down the research.
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Critique By:
Donald McKay (K:340)
10/5/2003 7:25:46 PM
In 1866, with the Union Pacific foundering financially, Oliver Ames assumed the presidency of the Railroad while Oakes Ames became the president of Credit Mobilier. As the Encyclopedia of American Business History delicately puts it:
"The Union Pacific formed a separately incorporated construction company to finance and build the line. In addition to the limited liability a corporation offered investors, the construction company offered near-term profits on a project that was risky and unprofitable except in its long-term prospects."
To put it a more baldly, one enterprise ? the construction company ? profited wildly from its monopoly, taking those profits from another company ? the railroad ? which, if it was to profit at all, must have huge grants of land along the line to sell in the future, for town sites and agricultural settlement. With the cooperation of the Federal government that is what happened, always moved along by the reputation of the Ames brothers as men of substance and helped not a little by Oakes? dual positions: president of the construction company, and representative of the State of Massachusetts in the U.S. House of Representatives. In 1872, using copies of of Oakes? own correspondence, the New York Sun connected the dots and closed the circle of corruption: Oakes Ames had been selling shares of Credit Mobilier ? made extremely profitable by commissions from his brother?s railroad ? to fellow representatives in Congress, and a senator or two; in exchange the representatives supported vast grants of land, and the treasury bond loans necessary to keep the Union Pacific solvent. The value of the stock involved was small, and the railroad clearly profited the Federal Government (not least because frontier defense was now practical) but that did not matter to the combined chorus of journalists and politicians nearly as much as the evidence of collusion: the outcry was immediate. Over the course of two Congressional investigations, Oakes Ames was censured by Congress. Only days after his final fall from honour, in a narrative that would make shame fatal and pathetic fallacy a factor in government and fraud, Oakes Ames died, in disgrace.
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Critique By:
Katrin Aasa (K:740)
10/4/2003 8:18:26 AM
Interesting monument.Good composition.High place?I'd increase contrast a little.Who is ames?(people with black hats and white shirts?)
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Critique By:
João Magalhães (K:2067)
10/3/2003 3:09:17 AM
There'se some less pleasant fuzziness. The excessive contrast (or unpleasant tonal range) I tend to associate to TMY is also present. Nice composition and mood, though.
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Critique By:
Girish Menon (K:1384)
10/2/2003 10:02:13 PM
;a blast from the past! cheers and beers!
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Critique By:
Richard Thornton (K:26442)
10/2/2003 2:33:18 PM
Good motion blurring (probably what the rider felt). I can't help thinking the image would be stronger cropped as a square or even vertical, eliminating the distracting rider on the right.
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Critique By:
Nikki-ann (K:535)
10/2/2003 2:05:21 PM
I can just imagine some tumbleweed rolling past... Black & white suits it. 
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Critique By:
Kaj Nielsen (K:15279)
10/2/2003 9:38:08 AM
Excellent compoced foto, great perspective, excellent light and contrast. Regards Kaj Nielsen
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Critique By:
JL E (K:9693)
10/2/2003 7:26:13 AM
exclellent perspective and contrast between black and white.
perfect DOF.
good work.
Cheers
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Critique By:
kita mcintosh (K:18594)
10/2/2003 4:28:21 AM
1998 or 1850? great shot
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Critique By:
Katia Cutrone (K:12940)
10/2/2003 4:27:56 AM
Like in a farwest movie...
it's a shame the pic is so dark.
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Critique By:
Mário Sousa (K:16985)
10/2/2003 4:14:24 AM
fine photo
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Critique By:
Patrick McGregor (K:52)
10/1/2003 4:29:58 PM
fab. just fab !!!
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Critique By:
Teunis Haveman (K:37426)
10/1/2003 2:06:56 PM
Nice landscape, but crop the bottum
Teunis
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Critique By:
Donna Devine (K:2885)
10/1/2003 1:59:03 PM
Great shot. Poignant, somehow. Lovely details and sky.
Suggestion: Crop a bit from the bottom of the picture.
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Critique By:
George Marks (K:15437)
10/1/2003 1:58:54 PM
Where can I view the essay in its entirety, and what is the theme for the essay (beyond the title)?
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Critique By:
Andrew Lopez-Calvete (K:2441)
10/1/2003 11:39:44 AM
There you go, told you so! Thanks Mario
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Critique By:
JL E (K:9693)
10/1/2003 8:42:47 AM
perfect movement! as a paint
cheers
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Critique By:
Marcel Laurens (K:3654)
10/1/2003 7:32:29 AM
excellent feeling of motion and tension!!!
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Critique By:
Mário Sousa (K:16985)
9/30/2003 3:53:00 PM
nice photo
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Critique By:
Andrew Lopez-Calvete (K:2441)
9/30/2003 3:45:37 PM
I really want this shot to be in colour. It looks like something that Meyerowitz or Christenberry would have shot and I'm desperate to see the remains of brightly coloured paint on the decaying pump heads, set against an otherwise neutral backround. Saying that, this is under architecture and the focus seems to be pulled back to the rather dull structure in the background. You mention that its part of an essay, maybe in context this image would read better but otherwise I think it lacks something and comes across as a little flat. Also I think it would be preferential to square up to the central blok a little more as the slightly off centre position conspires to make the frame look crooked (which its not).
Sorry to be negative, but the key words are "I think" I'm sure my voice will be drowned out by countless 'cool pic' comments. Feel free to rip my work to bits as I've posted some real stinkers!!!!
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Critique By:
Katrin Aasa (K:740)
9/30/2003 4:53:16 AM
It's very beautiful and interesting view.That's right - some contrast is needed to make trees more powerful.
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Critique By:
Evangelos Koutsavdis (K:379)
9/29/2003 6:57:48 PM
I think this is a good photo, however I could suggest the following: increase contrast, eliminate the empty space on the right and/or focus on the roots; with increased contrast they would have made a good subject.
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