I heartily agree with all the positive comments. I.too.especially like the last one with the diagonal composition and the bird looking ahead into the wild orange (mauve?) yonder.
Excellent story-telling capture.
There is a weekly column in our local (San Francisco) bird-cage liner that is usually worth reading. Today the author.
Kevin Fisher-Paulson. draws from his 37 years of marriage and watching "Jeopardy" on TV to offer these lessons.
! Stay with the category you know best
2 The answers are not nearly as important as the questions.
3 No matter how badly you guess. you will probably never achieve the benchmark of Stephanie Hull. who scored
-$6.800 in 2015. If you're gonna fail. fail stupendously.
4 Sometimes. there are no answers and you still have to live with the questions.
5 When in doubt. BET IT ALL!
I'm a psychiatrist who was in practice for decades, until retiring due to illness a few years ago. I practiced in hospitals during that time, both psychiatric facilities/wards and med/surg units of general hospitals. In the general hospital setting, occasionally...really very occasionally...I was called to evaluate &/or treat patients who presented with symptoms that were clearly not due to a psychiatric, physical or physiological cause. The diagnoses could include Muchausen's syndrome or malingering (although it could be argued that these are also psych disorders)
Both of these are conditions which are untreatable, especially in an acute treatment setting. Moreover these patients consumed a great deal of resources. For example there were repeated expensive studies to rule out the causes of their medical complaints, which could have been due to life-threatening conditions. Their nursing care, which sometimes had to be specialized or intense, was an often unrecoverable cost to the hospital. This is a thumbnail sketch of why they were considered 4Plus PITAs to staff and administration. Often, when their frauds were overt or even strongly suspected, they would arouse the anger of staff, who felt duped.
The management of these phony patients was simple and usually effective: most often, when their covers were blown, i.e they were confronted with our awareness of their deception, they would leave of their own volition. Occasionally I would have to facilitate their decision by reminding them of the illegality of their acts. Usually. after they left...often in a huff...we wouldn't see them again. Occasionally, we would hear from another hospital nearby that they had someone on their hands who sounded very much like ours.
Now, my purpose is not to make an assessment as to whether the photographer in question is, in fact. the person who took the pix, but to point out the similar dynamics in an unrelated setting.That includes the feelings of all of those who feel "duped" by being "victimized" by the alleged fraud . It is certainly understandable that serious practitioners who have worked hard to reach their current skill level will feel enmity at those who trifle with their accomplishments or usurp the rewards of their study and labor.
I also wanted to note that bringing the fraud to light usually cases the perpetrator to say "Good-bye". He/she has other places in which to try his/her scam (e.g.
other web-sites, or if he/she feels especially frisky) to try us again.
Happy 2022
Frank
The pessimist says. "Things are so bad they couldn't possibly get any worse."
The optimist replies. "Yes. they could."
Great color and clarity! Noiseless images.
Nice capture...and title!
Excellent set! Very enjoyable.
Thanks for posting this. Great intro to a new year.
She has a lovely touch and from a visual perspective is also rewarding (not hard at all to look at)
Happy New Year!.
Frank
If you haven't heard her rendering of Tarega's "Capriccio Arabe". I recommend a listen.also available on YouTube
"Revenge is a dish best served cold."
Excellent capture (by both of you!)
Happy New Year
Frank