Comments Received by Anthony Harvey

This looks like something you'd see in Switzerland. Really mouth watering!

The row immediately above is also special in that the cake is covered with a true pancake with an extra pancake cone resting on top. It’s as delicious as it looks.

No way I would have got the camera above neck height under similar circumstances.

very inviting

Thank you very much, Bushwick and Luigi.

Yes there's a lot going on in the image, Bushwick, and I've got a feeling that it might be too much. As you say, Luigi, it's got multiple layers but it wasn't intended like this, just a shot through a window at an indoor mirror that showed the owner changing a ribbon for a hat my wife had just bought with her winnings at blackjack from the night before! It's complicated by the shadows from the sunlight and the writing on the outside glass.

I know what you mean about the dream, Luigi. It's very true - by starting with the people in the image and working backwards one can work it out. I hadn't thought of that. The trouble for me, of course, is that I can't see it as everyone else does cos I was there at the time. I'm glad you both liked it though.

I liked all the angles, a bit like a cubist painting where they stick on something in the middle from real life, like a newspaper cutting.

Thank you, Steve and Luigi.

I'm glad the angle worked, I wasn't sure about it when I took the shot.

Thank you very much Luigi. More luck than judgement! - I didn't think the composition would work so well until I saw the actual print. I'd planned the framing and tried to get a few people inside it but was very lucky with the legs and heads.

(Although different in some ways, it reminds me of your Fontainebleau photo of December 2010 when you said that you were lucky with the tourists!)

Pretty. Wendy has such a lovely benign look on her face.

Thank you Richard.
Yes, it was so jaunty that I couldn't get the horizontals right! Seriously though, I'm fond of it all the same. What I didn't realise when I took it was that the light from the top of the table-lamp adds to the light on the principal ballerina, and this combines with the distortion from the perspective to emphasise her importance. Pure fluke.

Love the color Anthony Harvey, love the composition, love the most inviting subject. Nice.