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Don Westbrook

Gallery: NPN PhotographersPosted January 4, 201358 views7 comments

New member here. I live on the Eastern Shore of Maryland and have decided to devote myself to travel and wildlife photography. I just came back from a week in Churchill Manitoba photographing polar bears which was fantastic, and have already put down my deposit to return next year. Until then I am spending a lot of time on Assateague Island and at the Blackwater refuge.

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Comment posted by John Clulow on January 4, 2013 at 6:29 PM

Hi Dave and welcome to NPN....

Um...I very much like the somewhat off-center positioning of the subject in this, and more particularly the diagonal formed by the subject's left arm on the right side of the frame, which leads the eye up to the sunglasses, a surrogate for eyes, yet again nicely oriented on that diagonal.

But the most amazing thing to me, speaking of the sunglasses, is the reflection of the sun and another, opposite horizon which you have managed to capture there! (I presume these lenses are polarized as I see nothing in the other one); kind of reminds me of the distinction between the left and right eyes of René Descartes on the cover of the book in my very first philosophy class.... but I digress.

All of these lines; the arm, the glasses, and the buttons on the shirt; all are leading lines up to the head and face of the subject, which I presume to be your head and face. If I am wrong, please correct me.

Very nicely done, Don Westbrook! and with a fill flash, I presume, though you neglected to provide EXIF data.

The one very very minor nit I have with this image is that your horizon appears not to be precisely level, and that is a particular peccadillo of mine, no alliteration intended.

welcome aboard

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Comment posted by Verdon on January 4, 2013 at 6:37 PM

Don well done, welcome!

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Comment posted by Don Westbrook on January 4, 2013 at 7:30 PM

Don

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Comment posted by Guy Nelson on January 5, 2013 at 12:42 PM

Hi Don,
Welcome! Nice to meet you. I look forward to viewing your photographs in the future.
Guy

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Comment posted by Nick Bristol on January 5, 2013 at 4:03 PM

Hi Don, Nice to meet you! Cheers, Nick

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Comment posted by John Clulow on January 5, 2013 at 4:17 PM

Thanks for the comments John but I can't take any of the credit except asking the guy standiing next to me at this Veracruz bus stop if he would take my picture. If I ever see him again at the bus stop I will pass on your remarks to him.

Don

Don!!! We gotta find that guy and take up a collection to get him a camera, you know what I'm sayin'?

I am feeling a sense of loss here in that we have t his image of Don, but we've lost, possibly forever, the photographer who made this image, with the angles, and the sunglasses' reflection of an alternate sunset and all of that.

How could this happen?!?!?!?!!!

Anyway, welcome to NPN, Don. Maybe next time, get the web address of the photographer. That's my advice.

Registered on November 1, 2012, 155 Posts, 1079 Comments

Comment posted by Howard Cheek on February 13, 2013 at 9:38 AM

Nice to meet you Don & welcome!

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