Tony Britton
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Side-lighting helped me achieve the style and mood I desired in this photograph of a Snowy Egret.
Tony
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Side-lighting helped me achieve the style and mood I desired in this photograph of a Snowy Egret.
Tony
WOW! What a delightful and thoughtful response to this image. I greatly appreciate your comments!Superb portrait, Tony!
Usually, white egrets and herons are shown with smoke vegetation and perhaps some shallow water prey for the picking. While these are all truthfull, this picture eschews the environment and as in acportait of a person, focuses on the subject for its essence. You have achieved that with aplomb!
I admire the clean composition and the perfect white feathers against this deep dark background. It’s so very effective and I am impressed. But then you do have an advantage as this singularly long tall elegant bird is so much more “portraitable” than a thrush, Hummer, hawk or dove! This heron has elegance like Audrey Hepburn in a white dress or a homoerotic white marble sculpture of an celebrated athlete, (commandeered by a Pope from the Roman Colliseum), renamed, in Holiness, “Truth” in the haughty halls of the Vatican Art Museum in Rome! This has that kind of superior and celebrated awesome “standing” and attitude, that Roman Senators in their white robes, aspired to reach! Tell me, what bird shows more class, wisdom, craft, self-worth and quiet aristocracy?
What you have presented is admirable and perfect for a wall in a fine home!
Asher
WOW! What a delightful and thoughtful response to this image. I greatly appreciate your comments!
Tony
When I was in Medical School, there was a bespoke book on Internal Medicine by John Pappenheimer as a guide to acquiring the Sherlock Holmes like skills in evaluating patient’s symptoms and signs. He would advise all students to find a Jewish friend and learn the “Four Questions” and the significance of “Mah nishtana?”
He wanted folk to know, “In what way is this knee pain different from all other knee pains?” This approach was revolutionary, since other teachers gave long lists of causes of knee pain. Pappenheimer had none of that. He only was concerned with the features that distinguished the particular knee pain and allowed immediate diagnosis. The same with bacteria. There were no lists of cocci. But the gonnoccus, (causing gonnorhea, (pissing raisor blades and dripping pus),was simply caused by the gram negative diplococcus that ferments glucose but neither maltose nor sucrose. He had no interest in any medical student spurting a list of 19 horrible venereal diseases, as the correct description aced the correct diagnosis!
What a wondrous story, Rebbe Asher!
Best regards,
Doug
Socratic questioning is the best teaching tool there ever was. I used it with both my students and as a tool for mentoring teachers attempting to complete their National Board exams. The answers are almost always inside of us if someone just makes the right associative query as given in the Four Questions at Passover.