silence

Gorgeous!!!

Wow great Work!

My dear Monika,

this is top notch work !

i'm speachless,

erwin

____excellent!!!

Fantastic idea! Had to look at it twice to actually see what it was! Very imaginative!

This made my day. A quality and originality that is rarely seen on this site, or anywhere else for that matter. Top notch, indeed.

I think this could be a POW! Congrats!

i love this

Yes very dramatic bathing :) love how you capture the face in the water!

Very original too :)

 

Biliana

It took me some time to understanf what this really is!! One of the most original picture I have ever come across. This is simply outstdnading! Great work.

The concept is wonderful but I am not really enjoying the uneven black border.

Yes - outstanding - POW quality - very creative - Thank you for sharing. Regards Axel

I wanna thank you all so very much! Some of you ask for a version without the leg. I'll upload one, but I wanna say, that this one here is my personal fav and I think the leg gives the right depth.

Thank you so much!

seen on altphotos....but still fascinanting

 

brava!

 

.oesse.

Very creative and very well executed too.

This must be one of the best photos I've ever seen. That should be enough said :). 7/7, Roy.

very nice, very impressive...

OK, I don't really have anything to add to what other people have said, but I want to say it anyway. Cool. Very original.

What an original image, Monika. Perfect composition radiates enigma. cheers Jana

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I love it. It is very creative. I do not think I would change a thing about the lighting or arrangement. As for the call for looking at the original, I am ambivalent about that. I sort of would like to see it but, on the other hand, I doubt Ansel Adams showed a straight unaltered print before showing us the ones we all know.

the title is well chosen. the composition is fantastic, the idea is brilliant. i love the nose standing out, it somehow parallels the leg. i love how the hair spreads in the milky water, and how the nose is the only part of the face that is actually sharp. i also think there hasn't been done much postprocesing, although i wouldn't really mind if there was. in the end it's all about the message you want to transport. but again: there is not much ps work i could point my finger at in this pic. this picture is simpy brilliant, and it stayed in my head for a while, because i can remember having seen it a few months ago. in my opinion it is a perfect example for the combination of aesthetically high value that is also thoughtprovoking. pretty much the hardest thing to accomplish; and pretty much the thing that makes it fine art.

Good morning everybody!

First of all I wanna thank the elves for making my image the POW this week. I feel very honored and proud, thanks so much.

Well, I had the idea to take some photos in a milky bath and asked my dauhter, if she would like to help me. And she was crazy about that idea. During the shooting she goes underground very slowly and as she rested at this point I took this pic.

There is nearly no postprocessing besides the things you'll do in the darkroom.

The title I've chosen fits the image imho, because everybody knows, when one's head is in the water, there's no noise besides your breathing...just silence.

And by the way, I love the grain of analogue work :)

If you are interested, here are the pure negscan, without any processing.

Thnak you all so much.

Monika

What a strange picture! So beautiful!I found the overall composition was very successfully done, since the look is drectly attracted by this "strange thing" floating or lost in some foggy matter.Then, one second ..to understand that this is not some peculiar and unclassified animal but a genuine human face! It was a very good idea to avoid to wet the nose and the lips, which would have taken light, it's better they remain neutral.I believed first, the eyes were closed before to understand that the eyebrows are not the eyelashes...Then the spreading out of the hair on the surface of water changes strangely the proportions of the forehead and the overall apect of the face. It looks like a flat ground plan. Two elemnts emerge from this milky ocean, the nose ant the leg (under the form of an iceberg..You were right to keep such an element at the foreground)which both, underline nicely the flat composition of the face. I'd make a suggestion: could you try to crop the upper right corner, because the level of water breaks the strange aspect of this picture and reveals the reality of a bath. But you certainly took the good decision. The technical aspect of this picture is perfect.I should add to your title :..and strangeness. Thank you very much Monika for sharing.Congratulations. Guy (excuse my imperfect English)