Yeah I recall the smells and the feeling of being alone in your own special world. Never had the pleasure of working with such lovely models.

I think #2 & 3 are quite attractive pics of a pretty girl. How is she now? 70? Older? Wonder what she's doing now.

My uncle Bud, real name Arvil, served in the area in WWII. He was a weird guy, never amounted to much, mostly worked in south Texas fruit packing sheds, drank too much. I recall he referred to the locals as fuzzie wuzzies.

Yeah, I don't see the appeal.

Nice lines. The photo works.

What jet? Har de har har.....

I agree with this. A photograph is an image made from photons of light reacting with a sensor, either film or digital. An AI image, as mentioned above, can be created from a line or two of text typed into a computer. AI is obviously drawing from millions or billions of photographic images it's been trained on but not one actual photon ever struck on single sensor or film frame to create the image.

UHH needs to come up with a good definition of what a photograph is and it is not if it intends to remain a website for photographers. If not it's going to become a watered down visual graphics site and the whole point of having the site will be lost.

Not so here in northern California. There's a small river delta island called Staten Island where they overwinter. A two track dirt road runs through it and the birds tend to congregate 500' or so off the road. As the sun sets they start coming in from somewhere and you get some good shots of them in flight or landing.

(Download)


(Download)

You make some good points. In the quoted article the writer mentions film users having more control over the image. Really? How. I can do so many things in Photoshop or even Lightroom that I could never approach on film. In my film days I recall using a paintbrush to paint out dust spots or other odd blemishes. In LR all I have to do is click a button. I'd spend hours at a time experimenting with darkroom exposure and development times. I don't miss it.

They ban people from specific sections now? Who knew.

I'm currently banned from X for saying some stuff. Haha!

I suppose you could clone the greenery you see behind it. Or you could try water and make it look like it's walking along the water's edge.

I kind of like it. Those rock structures in the center certainly come out more in the processed image. At first glance I thought you might have added those in the give the feeling of the ruins of some ancient civilization in the distance. That small mystery is what drew me into the photo.

I can't say I like the movement blur in the foreground [#2]. It's distracting and gives away the fact that you were in a moving vehicle. I suppose shooting through a layer of glass from a moving train is going to give unavoidable blur. It is what it is. Your idea of cropping all that out definitely improved the image. Overall I think it's an interesting shot.

Sharp image. Great golden hour lighting. Well done. I wouldn't clone any gravel out or add catchlights. You got a nice clear closeup shot of what you saw. That's plenty good enough.

We have a place near where I live where the sandhill cranes come to spend the winter. The problem is they tend to stay as far away from the dirt road as they can making it hard to get close enough to get a clear picture. It's nice you're able to get a close shot like that.

I see there's already 24 pages of replies so I'll keep it brief.

1. I'd suggest you don't offer critique unless it's asked for. Most photos are just snapshots, something taken without much thought to preserve a moment.

2. You missed the fact that there is a Critique Section where we can post our best work and get constructive critique from members. The section doesn't get much traffic anymore. The original founders of the section tried to enforce a fairly strict set of rules, requiring real critique not just "great set" or a smiley emoji etc. You had to say something about the photo and what you think the artist should do to improve it. Plus, you weren't allowed to post your own take on how it could be improved without the creator's permission. Because the originators of the section tried to strictly enforce their own rules there was some dissension among the ranks and eventually the traffic died off.

3. Photo Analysis has always been more about the technical aspects of a photo rather than the artistic choices one makes. At least that's how it was in the past. I don't spend as much time here as I did in the past so it may have changed. The Critique Section was specifically dedicated to artistic critique, as one would do in a writer's group. More on that in #4.

4. Anyway, my rule is if I don't like a photo I move on without comment. If I like it I will compliment it and try to say a few words about what I liked about it.

I assume you already checked in Windows Explorer or Mac's equivalent to see if there are photos in the folder.
If the original files are there, then there's the probability that LR can't find the catalogue file associated with that folder. Try re-importing them.