Horn tooting, in awe and wonder

[pecunium]

I take pictures. I happen to think some of them are pretty good. But thinking one's own work is decent isn't hard to do. Harder is to figure out what other people will like.

I think this



is a pretty good picture. Based on other people's reactions, I'm wrong; it's a damned good picture.

On the other hand, some of the things I think are outstanding, e.g.



don't seem to resonate with people.

So, yesterday I got a comment on this picture, telling me the detail was really good.



I got it from, of all places, the National Museum of Wales

It took a little time for me to realise this was the actual flickr account for the Museum of Wales (why shouldn't they have one, the US Library of Congress has one). I don't know who manages the account. I don't know what criteria that person (or people) use to decide what to look at, much less what to praise.

I do know the various photos they have (at the museum's flickr account, and at the actual museum pages) include some nice macro, to include some wing scale details.

So I'm feeling tolerably pleased with myself.

Comments

[phonemonkey.livejournal.com]

I think the booby picture is absolutely awesome. The composition, the contrast between pale animal/dark rock and dark animal/pale rock.

[pecunium.livejournal.com]

It looks better larger. I have a 13x19 print of it, and the details of the lava, the feathers stuck in the booby's beak (from grooming) all show up well.

It's not the one people ask if they can get a copy of.