July 2010

COMMENTS:

Brian Magor	We recently visited Keukenhauf just towards the end of the flower season & it rained so lots of saturated colours. I might have cropped the blue bit at the top of the picture. It perhaps lacks a point of interest to make it a good competition entry, but it still makes a lovely image for the wall.
Susan Davi	Makes me want to go to Holland during the tulip season!  Pretty shot, I might have cropped the blue item out of the back right corner as it takes away from the uniformity of the picture and kind of draws you eye over to try to figure out what it is.
Richard Harper	This takes me back two years ago when I visited Holland and the Keukenhof Gardens. I wondered about a point of interest in this picture.. Then I noticed that there is a line of tulips going from bottom left to top right. Well seen and a picture that will hold memories for you.
Rick Cloran	All of the fundamentals on the image look fine to me.  While there is a bit of natural chaos to the arrangement, it is primarily a natural pattern and I'm looking for the thing that promotes one key element into an anchor point for my eye.  There looks to be a blue tulip just peeking out in the upper right.  If it was, changing the color of one of the reds to that (strategically around the upper right crash point) would add that breaker.  If it isn't I'd be very inclined to make a color change anyway, perhaps using a color from a different one of your tulip shots from this trip
Jim Mayo	Red green is always a good combination.  I would have gotten rid of the blue patches in the picture to keep it pure but I’m sure not everyone would agree to doing that.
Linda Speh	The tulips are a beautiful color of red but soft.  I like the soft.   I would probably crop out the blue at the top right and then I would put it on my wall, too

Chuck McCollum

I'll be 69 years old on October 28th. I have been an investment advisor/financial planner for 46 years with the same regional firm. I started as a clerk and wound up owning a majority interest in the firm. Subsequently I sold the firm to seven employees four years ago. I'm still working full-time with a more relaxed schedule and now I do what I like best: manage accounts, client service and research. This gives me additional time to spend on photography. I have been involved with photography since my military days 47-48 years ago. I was a brigade photographer and assistant editor of a monthly newspaper. Back in those days we didn't have digital. I carried around a big speed-graphic camera with four by five film negatives and my pockets full of large flashbulbs. Photography has been a part of my life since then but not on a serious basis. I currently have two Nikon cameras: D200 and D2X (I'm still learning every day how to use this one.). I traveled with a good group of photographers to the Bosque del Apache Wildlife Preserve in New Mexico last fall to photograph the migrating birds. Another trip is planned for Holland in April 2008. Other hobbies include golf and barbershop singing. I'm not so good at the first one, but I have sung in competing barbershop quartets and directed two choruses in contest and on shows. My family includes my wife, Betty, and two grown children