My image

This is an image I took on vacation on Sanibel Island, FL. Although I have many favorites and can't pick one, this is my favorite landscape image. The green and blure are so strong in color (without photoshop) with white clouds and the palm trees. It is so relaxing and beautiful to look at. There are marks in the sand, people sitting in the sand, and resorts in the background, giving it a feel of use but also of privacy because the beach isn't crowded. Sanibel is one of my favorite places in Florida, and they don't get snow clouds like Pittsburgh.

Chipping Sparrow, Great Spruce Head Island, Maine, June 16, 1971

     This is one of my favorite photos by Eliot Porter, the Ansel Adams of color photography. I am a bird watcher and know how difficult it is to get a bird with it's wings spanned out or in flight. Bird photography in general is a hard subject to capture.
     The composition of the photo is great with the birds wings spanning out to the ends of the photograph, protecting her babies. The shape of the bird and the wings are beautiful, and they are not a blur from the motion, but stopped so they can be admired. The redish head and black stripped eyes are the trait of the chipping sparrow, and he caught them perfectly.
     Although the color isn't great, you have to considered that Porter did most of his color photography in the 1960-70's, which means he had to make his own color film, which was very long and painstaking work, and didn't capture color as wonderfully as color film does today.