This is going to be in a book someday.

ooh, I like this one.

Again another image that seems two-in-one.. just when I thought the window is beautiful.. the thoughful woman added another dimension to the image. Wonderful Sam! My current post is inspired by one of your images.

Classic. Absolutely beautiful. Do they still use cycles that old?

I've noticed this with a lot of your pictures but I don't understand how you can shoot at 17mm and not have any perspective curving (as would be normal with a wide angle shot). Is the image cropped?

that is such a sad & meloramatic pic... sam, i hope, u did not push her off the bike.....

we could think beeing in a lovely modern romantic british movie... lovely...

Nicely framed shot; was she even aware of you?

Awesome photo! You caught her just about to crunch down on that apple (or some other fruit...) too! Nice timing :)

That one might look good in b/w, to accompany with the mood.

What's with the strike through 'bike'? It is a bike.

nice composition !
but i want an apple too !

nice picture.

Did you choose this window on purpose, or did the girl just happen to be sitting by it? The reaosn for asking, is that I think this is the subject for the first photograph.

I can't remember the gentlemans name or even the year, but I am fairly certain that this window, or at the very least, this building was the subject.

I am sure others will be along shortly to confirm/deny/correct my thoughts.

I love pics of these type. Nothing extraordinary in terms of a subject but the whole picture somehow manages to stand out extremely well. Nicely taken.

Ahh Sam, this pic sums up oxford and england perfectly! so pleased to see shots i can relate to I love your shots of toronto but there is nothing like seeing a familar face.

Aha! I knew this was Oxford as soon as i saw it. If you're still around, drop me an email. Have you been to the Natural History/Pitt Rivers museums?

Beautiful !
I mean the girl :)

Looks great Sam, I never thought you could make it. I remember you trying to take this shot without looking through the view finder or LCD so the girl wouldn’t notice.

this is a yummy picture. I really like the tonal feel here, and the slight reflection on the upper part of the window. I like the cycle as well, esp. the spring loaded Hannibal Lector seat.

what a pretty photo! the girl and the bike MAKE the shot.

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Library?
Like an ascent castle with a long-waiting Princess, not an apple but a Prince.
So romantic...

Great picture. Love the composition.

This is the coolest shot I have seen in awhile. Everything works together very nicely.

Really cool shot. Is she posing? If not... it's even better!

Makes me hungry

Great textures and colours. Love the composition.

I love the colors in this! Such rich yellows in the stone offset by the white in the windoes. Everything looks wonderful.

"Sad & melo(d)ramatic"?

If anything, she looks very carefree. Excellent colour.. I love the yellow around the windows.

Perfect.

Beautiful as it came up on my screen and even better as I scrolled down.

I can't help but worry that she's going to walk around the rest of the day with dirt smudges on the back of her nice white skirt......

Lovely, lovely shot, Sam! Makes me want to go there!

Lovely composition. I especially liked how the page opened just to the window and I had to scroll down to see the woman and her bike. The shot went from being a very nice window scene to being a wonderful shot of life at oxford. I agree with the first commenter that it should be included in a book!

They just don't make women this cool in North America.

And if you ARE a woman as cool as this one, come to http://www.skatersinc.com/message_board.htm and look for hugh newman. But you'd have to prove it before i'd believe you.

This pic rocks! GO SAM!!! And I agree with the first post. You should publish a coffee table book. That would be awesome!

Nice Composition....Love photos that involve people.

Wonderful composition. This is one of those photographs I'd like to have hanging on the wall to look at every day - it does not stop communicating things to me, plenty of ideas begging to be elaborated upon.

0n a scale of 1 to 5 (with 1 tops), a 1A.
I like this a lot.

I often work in this library. It's a great place to study. ...and to answer one of the above comment, we ride every kind of bicycle* we can find in Oxford, from the very old to the very new: they're all here!

*we mostly call them bikes or bicycles here--seldom cycles.

It gives me faith in the continuance of the really important things in life that you would entitle this one, "The Apple". Great shot, Sam!

Fantastic shot, really great. She looks so deep in thought.

wow, I really really like this photo. I like how she's wearing a white dress that stands out against the wall and how you've got so much height covered in this.

This girl could've been me twenty years ago. Other times, other places....
Lovely picture.
Kat

Wow, simple but very nice!

Terific shot, sums up the pace, style, and atmosphere of Oxford wonderfully.
and Zishaan; this is a pretty modern bike by our standards!

To me, the beauty of this shot is the composition. Simple and complex at the same time....

The only thing that puts me off the shot and its hardly a critisism is the bike does not look like hers.

I mean its an old junker and she is sitting there is a nice white dress.

Wow. This photo makes me want to paint again... it's been a while and I probably won't have time to paint anytime soon... but may I?

bicyle? do you mean bicycle? haha gotcha!!

Beautiful shot - very classic. The gold and the girl - lovely.

What an awesome image. Bequtiful windows. There seems to be a deep story in this. Raggedy bike (men's model I might add). She's very polished and wearing a skirt. Don't think she went to the library on it but they fit together perfectly somehow. ;) nice!

wow, this is gorgeous.

Sorry, I did not read the 50 comments prior, but WHY did you not crop this at the stones above the bike? Just my opinion, but the dramatic focus is lost at the bottom of allllllllll the building space IMHO.

call me curious.....

Such a perfect capture of life in Oxford. This how I'll always remember it - bikes, students & fantastic old buildings everywhere. When I was there I got a great pic bike propped up against a fence right next to a sign saying "please do not leave your bikes against these railings".

This is one of your best, I think! Really beautiful!

i was just browsing google image search for "apple" pictures, and this is beautiful. im excited at the building, the tones, colour, i love this photograph.

Your best shot in a while, I think. Fantastic textures and colours! Great capture.

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