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Have at it.

Strange.... I like it, jana

Well, so much for me getting to sleep tonight! Acatually, a wonderful, creepy image. It's as though I want to make up a stroy as to what happened, what's happening, what's going to happen. I'm especially intrigued by the toes of what appears to be an elderly woman.Very interesting image.

It has the strange fascination; a grotesquery of anEdward Wood 'B' grade movie like Night of the Ghouls. There is also a certain ambivalent pathos in the hand-holding of the old man and the child's doll and in that lies a strange mix of both sympathy and distaste.

For me however, the photograph'spunctum will always be the old man's arthritic toes.

If it had not been for your kind words on my portfolio I would never have seen your good work--thankyou.

Cheers...John.
 

I'm so glad y'all appreciate this image. I've often thought that I'd like to shoot work in the same ilk as Ralph Eugene Meatyard, whose most notable pictures were of people in masks. And so, I have assembled a small collection of rubber masks. I hope to someday continue my series of Meatyardesque photos.

BTW, those are the feet of my eighty-six year old dad, whose toes have become gnarled from almost fifty years of near-daily tennis playing. For this series, I bought him a tuxedo at a Goodwill thrift shop for $7.00, and then promptly returned the tux for a full refund when the shoot was over.

Here's another shot from the same series. I used an old Pentacon Six medium format camera for this one:

http://img.villagephotos.com/p/2002-6/26820/Dad--Mistyb.jpg

great shot Jonh.

very great, John. You should do a series of it!

This is just creeping me out. Well done. -David

Just great. Very novel idea, very original. Very good composed. Too bad it doesn't have a powerfull title. The only reason why I have gave you 6/7 and not 7/7 are the burnt parts (water and little doll). Otherwise ... perfect image. The photo "speaks". Very warm regards.

John,

This is great, really strange but that's why I like it. You have really gone outside the box with your mask series. Well composed and well thought out image.