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Comment by cgino:
This is fabulous! It looks like a big robotic monster with glowing eyes about to swallow yet another unsuspecting human being led into its huge, fanged mouth...Nifty perspective, the colors rock.

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Comment by cgino:
Love the combination of images and the wide angle distortion on the bottom one. Your first taco, EVER?? wow!

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Comment by cgino:
Love it! This is so fun, I love the intense colors and the motion of the 'flying cory' :-)

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Comment by CorySmith:
ah yes! i love how you put it in the bird category ;)

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Comment by CorySmith:
damn im good

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Comment by Melethia:

There's my try at it. Funny how we both have a McDonalds... just don't get caught by the paranoid employees! :-) (And yours is better.)

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Comment by Melethia:
I noticed you managed to sneak in a couple of pigeons... nice! Very good grouping here - I quite like the pink bicycle.

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Comment by nixter:
Your images and Zigomar's story work well together. What a team!! : )

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Comment by Zigomar:
Fragments of memory from that night:

~So, Chris and me were waiting for the tram when this amuzing guy came buy. He was drunk as hell but I guess he had a reason. He was not homeless, although he looked like that. He was carrying some bag full of stuff and was lumping a little bit. He was wearing that old coat with the amblem of Border control from the times of old Yugoslavia. "Volvo man, red Volvo, license plate BG*xxx-xxx, hit me yesterday and ran away, plastic bumper, but I'm ok, I'm ok." - it was what he was telling to poor Chris who was nodding politely. "Here, take a look at this" - he was showing us the papers - "It says here...". The papers were diagnosis from the hospital saying that he got hit, and all other data were written there. Then we spoke a little bit and he told me that he lives in a church and is painting icons. Like Michelangelo I thought to myself! He showed me the little pendant cross that was hanging from his neck on a thin thread. It was given to him by Serbian Patriarch !!! (who is btw one of the most respected men in Serbia and an amazing person, when he was younger you could see him riding on the tram!). All in all I guess the guy was not that bad injured cause he ran away from the hospital...

desecrated
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Comment by jdannels:
Memberdigifotojo
Two separate images that don't really mesh the way they've been combined. Too pragmatic.

MemberMephisto
thanks for the feedback everyone! if anyone feels like commenting again you can do that on the one in my portfolio:
MemberKali
Why B&W? I bet there's a lot of cool colors we (the viewers) are missing out on.
On the one hand I really like the 2 different perspectives but on the other I would've been satisfied with just the shot on the left.
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Membertnun
Choose one!

Memberubique
Panasonic Lumix DMC-L1K
[Reply w/ Quote] [Report this Post] 02/04/2009 07:41:22 PM
I can't get my skull around extreme wide angle / spherical interior shots of buildings, especially domed and arched churches. Makes me feel like I'm trapped inside a balloon. However, this one has the attraction of being "de-sacreded", which is the best thing for them, in my view.
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Memberposthumous
Canon EOS-350D Rebel XT
[Reply w/ Quote] [Report this Post] 02/03/2009 11:24:18 PM
I'm not a big fan of wide angle interior shots of cathedrals. I've been in cathedrals and that's not what they feel like. Having two together isn't doing much for me, either.

MemberLes_Feck
If desecration is what what you're trying to portray, I'm not sensing it. If desacrated means something, its meaning eludes me.

Architecture, even in abandonment, can still be evocative.

Memberchromeydome
excellent technicals here, a challenging subject/environment. The dyptic is well done, also, but I think it almost seems clinical, documentary as a result of the dyptic treatment. The transition of perspective is slightly unsettling to me. This is a case where I think each image is strong, and each would do better standing alone. For the record, I have no bias against dyptics.

Memberundieyatch
Duo interior wide angle views of a decaying church. Appears in a logical condition due to abandonment, consolidation or simply a shortage of priests.

Memberwheeledd
I'm not normally a fan of dyptics; I usually think that the images distract from each other. But here they are really complementary. The rounded shapes echo across the two frames while the high and low viewpoints provides contrast.

~~DanW
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MemberBear_Music
"Desecrated" is the word you're looking for, be sure to fix it when you can. Unless it's an intentional misspelling, but I don't see the point in that myself.

Love the subject, but I'm lukewarm on the rendition of it, frankly. Technically quite nice, dealing witht hese contrast extremes is challenging.


MemberLydiaToo
Wow... this is someone I've never seen before. Very interesting and thought provoking... my imagination is running wild imagining it in its prime.

MemberBAMartin
What a glorious old building. I would give anything for an hour there. You have done justice to its glory.
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