Another great one, Sam. The snow looks like it is completely real and not a digital image. Great job, again!

Nice saturation in the bricks. I really like the icicles hanging from the picnic bench. Great exposure of the snow without blowing out highlights. Nicely done.

I really love your pictures. This one too!
One of the first things I do every morning is visiting your site. And I think I do this about six hours before the most of your visitors, because I’m from Germany. I found your site as I informed myself about Toronto, because I will do a student internship from April to September this year at a company in Toronto.
It’s a great pleasure for me to see every day a great picture of this town, because photography is a great hobby of mine. Instead I don’t like digital art and digital cameras for myself I like your results. I think the reason is that you use your digital camera like a classical one and Photoshop as a classical darkroom. Stay on working this way!
If you want to see some classical black and white “fine-art-nude” photos, please visit my website: www.fotocompany.com
Warmest regards
Jan Meinen

amazing work again, the mysterious element had been induced majestically by not capturing the whole table and neither keeping it in the middle which otherwise would have made it a another routine shot. IMHO a slight variation in contrast could have made the object stand out. meet me at http://subiet4u.blogspot.com

hey i talked about contrast level in my last comment so i played around a bit with a color intensity (red is particular) and contrast level to add that rusty and static for ages look to this picture. u can view the new image at http://subiet4u.blogspot.com obviously i won't say mine is better coz the orignal might have a different story to tell.

I really enjoy seeing the difference between what comes out of the camera and the final image. I almost never touch any of my photos after I take them, and posts like yours remind me that it's something I may want to play with. Thanks!

excellent work, as usual. =) i have ddoi as my home page so it pops up every time i turn on my computer. happy happy.

currently, my art class is studying a photographer, tokihiro sato. his stuff is really interesting (it made me think of it when you mentioned "when you click the shtter, only half the work is done". this guy does all of the work as when you click the shutter with no touchups or dark room tricks. --at least that's what my teacher said) anyway, if you've never heard of him, check him out. his stuff is all over google.

wow~I can feel it's freezing out there!
Great pictures!

Nice picture. Theres a lot of orange-red colour here. I have seen a lot of very clear and thick icicles recently, its amazing how huge yet clear these things can get. It formed off a tree just outside my house.

I like the somewhat battle with the red vs. white but the texture brings a lot more battle than the colors do, the soft white snow against the bloody scratched brick is really intresting!

Beautiful. The snow looks like meringue... really textural.

there's a guy in the bricks!
does no one else see this??!
i'm weird

awesome photo. the snow looks un touched.

(p.s - someone said in an old comments thread that my blog has some similarities to yours. for what it's worth, it's not intentional. i'm just heavily influenced is all.)

Three great layers of texture. The snow in the foreground is simple and elegant; the icicles on the table provide nice verticle lines to break up the horizontal format, and the bricks are an effective repeating pattern as a canvas. Great shot.

You are joking, right? it can't be possible to take such a great pictures with the crappy 18-55 kit lens!

Regards
Rodrigo.