Solitude Interrupted
by Nusbaum

Comment:
You knew nothing about portraiture and came up with this image and processing?
One of the best portraits I have seen here on DPC, on so many levels.

Thought Control
by gyaban

Comment:
Woah, what are all carrying?
votes?
sorry Christophe, I couldn't resist :D
very good job as always.
my only nitpick would be that simulating some more heat and dust in the air on the puppeteer, which would have gone well with the giant fire and the strong wind that seem to be blowing on the scene, but I am nitpicking.

controlled freedom
by flaherma

Comment:
I love idea, postprocessing, composition. The DOF makes for a dynamic image (assuming the image is straight from the camera, which it looks like). The only thing is that the image makes me think more of 'controlled fall' than controlled freedom. If that was the intention, I understand that for you the act, and the 'controlled freedom but still freedom', could have been after all a good thing.
I tried looking at the image upside down, in order to reverse the concept :), and perhaps it would work by tilting the framing a bit, but ideally if the string was attached to the 'tail' of the butterfly rather than the head.
Just a thought though, I am not 100% sure of your intent.
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screaming gulls
by jmritz

Comment:
I think I am getting your impression of twittering and facebooking :)
Before reading the title I thought it might be "silent screams" as the post-processing very much reminds me of silent movies and the frozen instant is pretty dramatic.
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You're copyrighted! What do you mean, you're copyrighted?
by jjbeguin

Comment:
Heheheh, what a perfect fragment of some vaguely Allen inspired movie. great capture no doubt.
An upgradeable 9 :)

Without their stolen music the 99% have nothing to listen to
by PennyStreet

Comment:
So they'll probably resort talking again to each other :)
Very interesting and effective overlaying or reflection (I am unsure).

Free speech laws spiralling out of control..........
by bcenu

Comment:
Crazy as it can be and very effective.
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End of the Internet
by o2bskating

Comment:
I would have found it much more effective whithout a title, not even an 'untitled' :)
First time I see here on DPC the old trick of the black frame, very appropriate.
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I claim copyright to flowers and waterdrops
by LandzEnca

Comment:
Hehehe, a secret dream of many, I suspect :)

Kids might actually have to use the library ....
by vawendy

Comment:
An alternative view :)
I wonder if the feeling of endless bookshelf is not a bit constrained by the vignette, but I guess that was the intention.
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