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[Greg McCary]

Beautiful photo and congrats on the feature...

[shootme]

Bloody Brilliant, can I say bloody here? maybe I'll just acronym it to be "BB". Seeing shots like this motivates me to try harder and gives me encouragement that maybe one day I'll be able to achieve something close to this. Just wonderful Dray. By the way congrats on the feature. Peter

[draymorton]

dana - thanks! I really appreciate it.

Greg - thanks and really, really great to see you around again!

Peter - I'm not sure that I'm worthy of such flattery, but it will get you everywhere.

Cheers guys!

[PRB]

Don't you ever take any lousy pictures---?

This is another amazing shot.

Congratulations on the featured photo of the week, it is WELL deserved.

My Best to You,
Penny

[draymorton]

Don't you ever take any lousy pictures---?

Well, let me put it this way: I'm currently trying to scrape together 20-30 usable shots for a website and I'm having a really hard time doing thus.

Thanks, as always, Penny, for the encouragement in the form of your very kind comments!

[CLKunst]

Hi Dray,

I'm an old eupher (euphonium player) from way back and love this shot most for the way you presented the instrument as a member of the portrait. My own horn is perhaps a quarter of that size but many friends and I in the low brass section have held a quick meeting over the bell of a tuba and IMO there's just no other way to frame this shot, it's most natural to a regular player of this kind of instrument at rest. The topping of your friend's head, bugs the junk out of me, but in a good way because my eyes continually flip back and forth between the face and the tuba. I might be tempted to look at the tuba alone if not for the incongruity of the framing. Great job, beautiful processing, well earned sticky. :thumbsup:

[GB1]

Wow Dray .. nice portrait. Congrats on getting it, and the sticky.

G

[draymorton]

Thanks CL and GB!