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Also, did you guys discuss the cropping on this one?:

Something else that strikes me is that the degree of imperfection you've allowed in each photo is very important. If you edited out all the small deviations from the pattern, or centered all the off-centre elements, these would be very different photos. Like with the first one (wall of blue windows)...

I'm sorry I missed the discussion of these. Martin, can you say anything specifically about what you did to the lighting in the two sunset shots? In the second one you've lightened the shadows a lot more.

One comment I would make about the first photo of the two girls is that the first one's t-shirt draws a lot of attention away from the kids themselves. I guess it's because the pattern on the shirt is so loud and busy. But of course you can't always ask people, especially kids, to go and change thei...

I love the photo of the (?)roses(?) -- very Dutch Masters.

Take as many photos as you can while they're too young to object

For some reason most of these strike me as needing to be seen very large.

As always, I'm amazed at how beautiful it is where you live, Martin!

Unlike you, Martin, I'm finding learning Affinity to be a chore. I installed it a while ago on my laptop for portable photo editing as it's so much cheaper than Photoshop, but I hadn't realized how different from Photoshop it is, and it seems to be more complicated and a lot less intuitive to use. T...

Of course they did -- your images are so much more interesting than the usual stuff, as well as being technically well-done. When I see exhibitions from our local photo club, it seems that what people are going for is technical proficiency, which usually makes the image less interesting and often cl...