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10/11/2006 01:42:02 PM · #101 |
had so many great ones lately! thanks, but this one made me laugh.
When I look at it closer, it really is the two cars on the highway that make this shot.;-p Great finish in a tough challenge. Well deserved! Can I take your laundry to the drycleaners you photo goddess?  ivo
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10/12/2006 11:56:27 AM · #102 |
 goodman left me a good one overnight, I really like it:
"yes!"
on this:
And she was kind enough not to point out the frame by IKEA :)
Message edited by author 2006-10-12 11:56:54. |
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10/12/2006 12:00:51 PM · #103 |
^ LOL@the IKEA frame Ursula :)
 levyj413
This is as close to a perfect shot as I've ever seen. The combination of youthful hope, the optimism of watering that small tree, and the birdhouse waiting to be put up. Just spectacular.
When I think about how to tell a story with a photo, this will be my model! |
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10/12/2006 12:15:43 PM · #104 |
Originally posted by Brielle:
Is it ok to post comments from challenges that are currently being voted on? I just got one that totally brightened my day. |
It's fine as long as it doesn't give away the challenge, but it's more fun for viewers if you include a photo for them to match the comment with... |
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10/12/2006 12:33:26 PM · #105 |
This comment from EricMGB1974 made my day.
Technically and esthetically suberb photo. My personal #1 for this challenge.
Message edited by author 2006-10-12 12:34:23. |
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10/12/2006 01:15:46 PM · #106 |
Originally posted by posthumous:
I feel like I am caught in the middle of a faint. I have no idea where I am, but it's somewhere very important. It is somewhere between feeling and meaning. The lines of perspective are a hand opening up to take me to an interior place I've never been, and I see myself as a child, trying not to see, and I see this frightful hand upon my own face, touching its pinky against my own hand. I am in pajamas that are falling open, utterly vulnerable, slipping into what I hope is the familiar world of sleep... but this passageway is utterly unfamiliar. I wonder if that is my whole life being drawn in the multitude of shadows, charcoal sketches of the images and incidents of my life. I am trapped in the moment before you pull your hand away and everything is obliterated by the sun into a monolithic world of white. 10 |
this has to be one of the best comments i've ever received. thank you, again, posthumous
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10/12/2006 01:30:21 PM · #107 |
Originally posted by xianart:
thank you, again, posthumous |
You're welcome. Thank YOU for braving places that most photographers don't dare to go. |
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10/12/2006 01:31:37 PM · #108 |
aww, gee, shucks. i've come over all blushy now...
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10/12/2006 01:55:15 PM · #109 |
"...Image is typical of Zeuszen..." by Ristyz
Message edited by author 2006-10-12 13:56:45.
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10/13/2006 12:51:05 PM · #110 |
"thanks..." << comment by bucket:
Message edited by author 2006-10-13 12:56:20.
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10/13/2006 07:13:16 PM · #111 |
comment by jaded_youth :
That is BEAUTIFUL. such a treasure. everything about this is perfect for me. lovely.
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10/14/2006 11:24:01 PM · #112 |
Day 3 : Hershey Atoms
Comment by wavelength:
reaction: what the?
read title: oh, that. cool.
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10/14/2006 11:47:57 PM · #113 |
Brad, its time to quit your day job! Buy that camera you really want, and go for it. I hope you distribute your photography, or at least show your work in galleries. I'm new to this whole digital photography thing, but my girlfriend is a highly recognized and accomplished photographer in Philly. I regularly go to the art galleries, and I see the work that people are doing in a city that is well regarded for being cultured and artistically educated. Your work blows them all away. Seriously, by leaps and bounds. I mean it in a factual way, and not just as my opinion. Excellent photo, and congratulations on another ribbon!
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10/14/2006 11:53:52 PM · #114 |
Originally posted by BradP:
...Your work blows them all away. Seriously, by leaps and bounds. I mean it in a factual way, and not just as my opinion. Excellent photo, and congratulations on another ribbon![/i]
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Flattery, neck-breaking. Don't take it hard now. Time
to become your worst critic. ;-)
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10/15/2006 12:55:31 AM · #115 |
Originally posted by zeuszen:
Flattery, neck-breaking. Don't take it hard now. Time
to become your worst critic. ;-) |
Actually, I am my own worst critic.
Most of the stuff in my portfolio classifies as snapshots imo & could easily toss. |
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10/15/2006 01:37:11 AM · #116 |
Posthumous strikes again.
Comment by posthumous:
This is my kind of photo! I enjoy being able to see something completely abstract simultaneously with what is being represented. Here, all the details seem geometrical: the windows, doors, bridge(?), and then on a finer level, the wooden planks, the bricks, the railing, and even the more ornate elements like the sill flowers and whatever that fencing is below it. All of it is geometrical (the flowers, for instance, are in a perfectly straight line at the bottom of the window). I like the tilt because most of the shapes here are on a straight vertical/horizontal, so by tilting you allow us to see more things. I feel like I'm tilting my head to see something more closely, the way people do. You have just the right amount of contrast to make details prominent without burning them right out. I think voters would accuse you of not being focused enough, but I like the soft focus, it's important to the texture of this piece, and allows some warmth into your geometry. |
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10/15/2006 03:07:16 AM · #117 |
Now this is the type of shot that would ahve excited me about the purple challenge...I would even look at the challenge if I thought I'd find something as cool as this...but I don't think I will...
 bucket
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10/15/2006 03:50:41 AM · #118 |
My image of myself with my nebuliser, called "Me, First Thing in the Morning", has received so many great comments, and this is just one of them.
lifternessjt Sherryl! Do NOT remove it. As you said...This is WHO you are. There is absolutely no shame in having treatments to keep yourself alive. I like this portrait exactly for this reason...It is YOU! Good work!
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10/16/2006 03:55:09 PM · #119 |
Been holding onto this one for a couple days now...I was waiting for the voting to finish!
Comment by srbrubaker:
The soft tonal gradation and exqisite detail perfectly complement a profoundly strong composition. WOW.
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10/23/2006 03:14:04 PM · #120 |
made my day a little brighter :) i woke up this mornin' to a school project far from being completeted and a little problem with the ol' bank account....... this comment by staab cheeeeered me upPPp :)
"GREAT picture... GREAT title. You have a knack for getting incredible shots, then finding the most perfect and creative titles for them. Yet another powerful gem from your collection... you are about to make me retire my camera ;)"
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10/23/2006 03:59:42 PM · #121 |
I got several wonderful comments on this picture, but I'm only allowed one today, so...
Comment by bucket:
don't feel like it is working too hard at all...probably would have gotten nailed on the 'I can see a bit of her face' voter types..
there is a strange darkness to the lower hand..looks a bit haunting...
yet this strange embrace allows a moment to reconnect to nature..the bokeh
isolates her, she is in the music, not caring about the world around her..
this really offers a dramatic context not found in your entry...the other shot is a nice mood piece, this one theatre...
I prefer theatre... |
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10/24/2006 11:09:44 AM · #122 |
another comment for the above picture, from agenkin:
Don, this is quite good. Lately I have been fascinated with central compositions. The tree in the center of the image is very active, and works very well keeping the eyes of the viewer travelling up and down. and the hands of the "cellist" are right there along the line, so this works well, too. The figure of the "cellist" becomes unimportant, and is only needed for context. Technically, it is a disadvantage that the black clothing is underexposed to the point of losing all detail.
For me, the compositional delight is quite sufficient, and the image would not lose anything even without the title. Maybe that's because I don't want to attribute any more meaning to the image.
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10/24/2006 11:14:07 AM · #123 |
Comment by posthumous:
As a viewer, I like to be disoriented. It involves me in the photograph. And this does that well. I have trouble understanding where I am, where I'm standing, what I'm angle I'm looking at this from. What are those eyes? Are they a reflection? Is this whole thing a reflection? It's different, though, than utter chaos because there are major shapes of light and dark, so a sense of divine order (qv Genesis) still remains... and there is also this large box shape that can be construed. But its lower edge is irregular, giving a sense of incompleteness, a poignant, vertiginous sense of things not coming together.
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10/24/2006 06:42:27 PM · #124 |
I don't receive comments daily, so I'll cheat and just post one of my favorites!
Sometimes I sppreciate an in-depth critique, but other times all you need is something like  littleda's comment on this one: JUST BEAUTIFUL!!!
Thanks, littleda! =)
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10/26/2006 07:28:41 AM · #125 |
This is a comment I received today from the Critique Club, re my image in the "Mornings" Challenge, with this image 
Written by  atupdate
For the lighting setup you choose, the post processing of this image is perfect. The shadows on the face and the lack of color gives this image a very mechanical feel and it fits well with the everyday, day in day out interaction you have with this machine. The high lighting of your face draws my focus directly to your left eye, which has the effect of personalizing your daily routine for me. There is nothing I can suggest for improving this image. That in itself tells me that your score is directly linked to how the voters related to this image. When you produce an image that conveys this much emotion and is so personal, you are bound to make some people a bit uncomfortable and they will vote accordingly. Not being a member, I did vote on this challenge but I would have given it a 10, as few pictures at DPC convey the human side of photography like this. Mine included. Excuse me as I add this to my favorites.
Tim
I would like to personally thank Tim for his kind words reguarding my image of me at my best/worst, (as that is the real me every morning)
Tim, you moved me to tears, and I am personally feeling so good now, that I did enter this image. All my life I have lived with who I am, and I am also very proud of who I am. My reason to why I finally decided to enter this image in the "Mornings" challenge, were two fold.
1 - I am very proud of who I am, and I would not change a single thing.....
2 - I feel part of my existance in this world, is that I also need to educate others, about who I am, and to help make them feel more confortable around people like myself.....
That was the real reason why I entered this image in the challenge....
Again I thank-you and the Critic Club, so much for your thoughtfull words, re my image called "The A.M. Ritual".
You honour me, and for that, I am blessed two fold.
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