I sure get a different interpretation viewing the two images. Removing color, cropping out extraneous bits and toning down that stuff off to the right certainly lets me focus on a possible statement being made. I rather like it - someone staring out through the fence - almost asking me to help.
Much improved for me. Nice work! -- Best regards, Bruce Friday, April 8, 2005, 9:59:57 AM, you wrote: SB> I posted a version of this more than a year ago, and last night revisited SB> the photo to try a somewhat different interpretation based on some SB> techniques learned since the first post. Here's the original, unretouched SB> except for conversion to JPEG from the original TIFF produced by the Sony SB> digicam, and the conversion made last night. Comments certainly welcome. SB> http://home.earthlink.net/~my-pics/senior/orig.html SB> http://home.earthlink.net/~my-pics/senior/bw2.html SB> Shel

