Here are some pics I snapped last summer while on vacation. Saddly enough this place was wiped off the map this past fall by hurricane Ivan.

The first two were taken at the far end of a lagoon near Alligator Lake, AL. The tree just struck me as wanting it's picture taken, why else would it look so cool? My daughter, well she always wants her picture taken. The third was taken at Lulu's just off the Intercoastal Water waty in Gulf Shores, AL (Jimmy Buffet's sister's place, good Margarita's, who would have guessed), the subject was again my daughter (my fav subject) only now she was wearing my goofy tourist hat.


Images are scans from photos taken on Kodak B&W +400 on a PENTAX PZ-1 using a smc PENTAX-M 1:1.4 50mm (1 & 2) and a smc PENTAX-A 1:4-5.6 35-80mm (3).

I like the second and third picture (especially the third). The first one doesn’t seem to have any center of interest for me.

The second shot I think could be improved by cropping some off the left and I think might have benefited a great deal from being shot at a lower angle. It is still a very nice picture.

On the third one I would again crop the left side to get rid of that bright spot next to your daughter and make the composition a bit more interesting.

Greg