|
|
Jim Loy
{K:31373} 12/11/2004
|
Don't ask me why I am so far back into you. You will see.
Robert Frost (Another Yank what thought he could write)
MENDING WALLS
"SOMETHING there is that doesn't love a wall,
That sends the frozen-ground-swell under it,
And spills the upper boulders in the sun;
And makes gaps even two can pass abreast.
The work of hunters is another thing:
I have come after them and made repair
Where they have left not one stone on stone,
But they would have the rabbit out of hiding,
To please the yelping dogs. The gaps I mean,
No one has seen them made or heard them made,
But at spring mending-time we find them there.
I let my neighbor know beyond the hill;
And on a day we meet to walk the line
And set the wall between us once again.
We keep the wall between us as we go.
To each the boulders that have fallen to each.
And some are loaves and some so nearly balls
We have to use a spell to make them balance:
"Stay where you are until our backs are turned!"
We wear our fingers rough with handling them.
Oh, just another kind of outdoor game,
One on a side. It comes to little more:
He is all pine and I am apple-orchard.
My apple trees will never get across
And eat the cones under his pines, I tell him.
He only says, "Good fences make good neighbors."
Spring is the mischief in me, and I wonder
If I could put a notion in his head:
"Why do they make good neighbors? Isn't it
Where there are cows? But here there are no cows.
Before I built a wall I'd ask to know
What I was walling in or walling out,
And to whom I was like to give offence.
Something there is that doesn't love a wall,
That wants it down!" I could say "Elves" to him,
But it's not elves exactly, and I'd rather
He said it for himself. I see him there,
Bringing a stone grasped firmly by the top
In each hand, like an old-stone savage armed.
He moves in darkness as it seems to me,
Not of woods only and the shade of trees.
He will not go behind his father's saying,
And he likes having thought of it so well
He says again, "Good fences make good neighbors."
|
|
|
|
George Black
{K:102014} 8/17/2004
|
Wow! A really wonderful composition. I think the crop is just right. The image has so many visual levels that it begs to be examined.
--george
|
|
|
|
|
Amy B
{K:619} 8/16/2004
|
I love it!! The crop is perfect, any more and you would lose the effect!! Great colors and composition!! Your son has a good eye!
|
|
|
|
|
John Hatziemmanouil
{K:40580} 8/16/2004
|
Fantastic! Simple a 7!!! A graet presentation Gabrielle from the holl. Excellent DOF at the rocks AND the background.
|
|
|
|
Peggy Christine Skinner
{K:26936} 8/16/2004
|
This is a great shot made even more terrific by the natural rock window onto a gorgeous lush green scene. Well seen by your son and perfectly captured by you.
|
|
|
|
|
Rebecca Raybon
{K:26654} 8/15/2004
|
Excellent composition and colors. Love the light showing through. I think this is your best one ever! He may have said take it, but you're the one shot it :)
|
|
|
|
|
Gabrielle Willson
{K:7978} 8/15/2004
|
Well they all do HAVE a camera already. I was thinking that digital with its disposable nature is so excellent in the promotion of picture taking - without the expense of developing costs and many unwanted photos.
|
|
|
|
Tony Diana
{K:13396} 8/15/2004
|
Me parece muy original
|
|
|
|
|
Gabrielle Willson
{K:7978} 8/15/2004
|
I think you are right - here is the more severely cropped image
|
|
|
|
|
|
Den Thompson
{K:30432} 8/15/2004
|
The crop is good Gabrielle. Any tighter and the impact of the wall would disappear.
Den
|
|
|
|
|
Jimmy Payne
{K:21163} 8/15/2004
|
Nah.. start'em out on manual film cameras. They'll learn more about photography. But, definitely, cameras are in order. smiles.
Jimmy
|
|
|
|
|
Dave Dixon
{K:2035} 8/15/2004
|
That crop works for me - I like the lack of vertical symmetry.
Your sone has a good eye for a photo subject
|
|
|
|
|
Del Metheny
{K:25617} 8/15/2004
|
I think it is fine, any more cropping and you would lose the context of the photo. Your son does have a great eye for a potential shot. Del
|
|
|
|
|
greg collins
{K:12273} 8/15/2004
|
Great stone framing.
Greg
|
|
|
|
|
Gabrielle Willson
{K:7978} 8/15/2004
|
Well if you can spare a minute
http://www.usefilm.com/image/326804.html
was taken by the same child.
I was out the other day and boys were home. I found a blood spattered sink and asked what happened. Oh just a nose bleed said the child unconcernedly- but he added with some distress- we couldnt find the camera! Thats my boys - a think a digital camera or 3 for Christmas may be in order dont you?
|
|
|
|
|
Dubravko Grakalic
{K:25235} 8/15/2004
|
nice shot, good composition and colors
|
|
|
|
|
Jimmy Payne
{K:21163} 8/15/2004
|
This crop works very well. Your soon has a good eye for photography.
Jimmy
|
|
0 
