{peer photo review}

     This photo of Trombley is unique in the sense that there is an interesting perspective, good use of the 'rule of thirds' in that the clock and and horizontal break of the photo are at approximate 1:3 ratios in their given placements.  There is good apparent texture in the photo which I love because it adds to the 'feeling' that you are in the flowers looking beyond.  This may be an insignificant fact, but that the time is almost 3:00 makes me feel this slight anticipation in time, gives the photo more life than it would have been if it were closer to an exact hour.  The fact that the sky was gray and the colors of both the trees and library roof in the background, as well as the black top of the clock, and the plants and flowers are the only thing that are really 'colored' in this photo give it a weird illusion of a black and white photo, that was color edited to include the colors of the vegetation.  It is kind of an interesting juxtaposition of elements because the trees are obviously dormant, in winter mode, and the weather also suggests that, but the flowers are still in bloom.  Without knowing that the school plants these flowers and they aren't just growing on their own in the middle of winter, this photo is thought provoking.

      There are a few things that I think could have been altered in order to make the photo composition stronger.  I would have actually liked if the focus of the photo was on the flowers rather than the clock itself.  It is completely a personal preference, taking to the plants more than to the brick clock that I see everyday.  It would have shown how much focus isn't put on something that is also always in our path.  I feel like if the clock and background were blurred we'd still be able to know where the photo was taken, and a bit of mystery would have been added to the image, not knowing the time and possibly not having the library roof so apparent.  Which brings me to my next point, that even if it may have been impossible to get the library roof out of the shot, I feel like a photo without it present would have been better because it takes away from the subject.

     Great shot!

xo