Thieving Monkey

Took this pic at thorny bush game reserve last week. Do you guys think it is too indistinct? Showed it to someone in my office who thought it was a picture of a leaf!

Is this too much?

I shot these at the beginning fo the month during one of my St Lucia workshops. There is very little if any PP that here. They are pretty much out of camera.

to balance the extremely bright sunrise against the darker foreground I used a 3 stop Cokin Soft graduated ND filter. A polariser and 2 stop ND filter slowed the exposure down to 1/3rd of a sec at f22.

So my questions is this: Is this too much (I mean the pictures themselves)? Is there too much colour difference? The Cokin filters have a colour cast of their own which has been introduced into the scene (very obviously). Some of the guests at St Lucia were impressed, but I'm not sure I should be. There's something too twee about it. Please let me know what you think and pass on any suggestions as to improvements.

cheers
E

A note on my Self Portrait entry

Found it! As I mentioned in my self portrait theme I shot something of a tribute to Andy Warhol (generally agreed founder of the Pop Art movement). I was wrong about it being a self portrait though. The image is actually by Duane Michals (1973), an influential American photographer who created 'conceptual' images. My bad, bust a reasonable interpretation I think.

E

p.s. The image is taken from 'A New History of Photography', edited by Michael Frizot and can be found on page 677 (the academic in me insists on at least a passing attempt at referencing)