[Zig]

Numbers 6 and 1 are my faves; I especially like the tones in the chairs. Number 2 would have pipped it for me, yet I find the top left a little distracting. Number 5 for me(and I stress my subjectivity here) doesn't quite have the shallowness of depth of field for me to pull the bird out..yet I do think the mono treatment sells it well, as we're then talking about tones and textures rather than colours. Now, I know darn well that number 7 is excellent, and I'm cutting it the slack in my mind by imagining it at 16x12 plus...'tis a shame that the web works so much more sledgehammerlike to (rightly) allow minimalistic shots to be scorchers yet doesn't quite capture the nuances of print. Come to think of it, the macros are tasty too. Thank you for posting these, a breath of fresh air.