Photos, I need constructve criticism - Page 2

Blue Mountain Snow is my favorite. Thanks for making it huge; now it is my wallpaper! (Unless you would prefer it not be my wallpaper for some reason, then shoot me a pm and I'll take it down. )

Pauly: If you are going to be doing macro work, I would suggest getting a tripod if you haven't already. Even one of those pocket ones can be useful. Macro shots (on the s30 certainly...I have one, so I know) require a steady hand, which may be why some of your photos were slightly out of focus. Do you have other camera's besides the s30? If so, you might want to get a macro lens and light...it will make things much easier, because it is really hard to take good macro shots without proper lighting, as flash doesn't really work...they do cost some dough though....I am still looking for an old ML-2 so that I could do it with my t-90, but I doubt I will find it any time soon...
Anyway, here is a cheater's hint for more dramatic macro photography of plants and spiderwebs....bring a mister. If you have a sunny day and a plant mister, you can get great glistening drops of dew hanging from the web if you just give a little dusting with the mister.

I like 101_0132 (three train's fronts/backs in a row)..

Would you happen to have some kind of a train fetish or something?

I'd look closer at that first pic if I were you!

Train? .... Boat!

I figured as much. Thanks for popping them back up for us. Now as to the photos:

I love your use of vanishing points with your subjects. The tracks in one, trains in others, the rock in the one photo.

The first and second train at night photos are very well done. Just beware of the foreground clutter that can detract from the photo. They both look like you needed to lean out a little more before taking the photos. The railing in one shot detracts from the beautiful photo slightly, but not greatly. The train at the station that is all lit up has one a small wooden corner and something sticking up detracting a little bit, but other wise well done. Maybe shrinking down the amount of the train in that shot and eliminating the bottom row of tracks would have brought more attention to the train and would have left the top set of tracks as a lead-out line and vanishing point perspective also.

The blue mountain snow shot only lacks proper use of the horizon line to make it hugely interesting. Maybe take the camera and point it slightly more down or up to emphasize either the land or sky more would have made it go from great to incredible.

For some sick reason I can't put my thumb on that photo of the rock and mud appeals to me. Maybe the contrast between the two main items adds to it. The two lesser subjects of the moss and grass at almost perfectly spaced intervals from the center are pretty nice. The grass on the right seems to be reaching up toward the rock and over toward the moss to it's left. I would say experiment with a little perspective change on that one and either get a bit lower to emphasize the moss and grass as the things coming out of the muck; or raise your perspective some to reduce it and show more of the rock as being out of the muck.

The other photo of the rock using it as a vanishing point with a nice brown leaf to break things up is well done. The shadows and darkness in the background really draw one's eyes and attention right to the leaf and the rock. The leaf is very well placed at a rule-of-thirds intersection to make it less stagnant and tends to also draw one to it first, the over to the left and up to see what is in the shadows.