Living Tree Root Bridge - Cherrapunji

Critiques [Translate]

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• ramthakur (32870)
• [2009-01-30 23:00]
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Hello Paromita,
First of all, let me apologise to you most humbly.
However, I swear the oversight on my part was totally unintentional. Let me explain it.
My vanity made me look up the 108th gullible person who had added me to his/her favourite list on TN today.
It turned out to be you.
Curious, I opened your profile.
When I looked at your pictures, I was stunned at their originality and beauty.
When I looked at your critiques you had given others, I was again stunned and ashamed.
Stunned because you have written ONLY TWO critiques since you joined TN!
Ashamed because your FIRST critique was on my 750th picture and that too written with immense sincerity and without a single grammatical error.
I can't forgive myself for not reciprocating to it, even though unintentionally.
But I can at least request you to kindly forgive a doddering, forgetful old man.

Now my role reversal to the retired Headmaster who actually never 'retires':
1. You are a very gifted nature photographer and my observation is based on your limited work I have just seen which you have shot with a simple point-and-shoot camera.
2. On the basis of your two critiques and some of the self-written notes with your pictures, I notice that you have strong communication skills in written English. Though I am aware some of our countrymen are a little handicapped in this respect, they still write critiques on others' work and get noticed, not necessarily on merit [(I'm one of them ;)].
So what makes you write only TWO critiques during your entire career on TN, young lady?
3. Please do write them. The plain truth is that it is give-and-take here, like anywhere else. I wouldn't say this unless I was convinced your talent was going un-noticed.
The following appraisal of your work in hand would prove my point:

I like the partial view of this natural 'bridge' because it documents the reality of nature in tandem with humanity and vice-versa. I wish you had drawn backward a little more to give the bridge a wider and bigger perspective. The man in the picture is not only irrelevant but also irregular. We TNers stick to the TOS like leaches, which, I presume, are found aplenty in your state :).
Your note is well presented, giving a perfect insight into how these 'bridges' are formed and how they play a vital role in the ecology of the place and how they affect the human life around them.

Thanks for sharing this image and best regards.
Ram