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Really interesting shot,great profile superb lighting! Tell me this is an EVE metaphor?

Very nice...I like this one alot.

Vision... Great work.

This is incredible, simply incredible!

very inspiring... the world is need a of a reality check to the balance on arise, the rise of the feminine energies, this energy ties us to nature... it is one of the same... you bring this inspiration to light with this piece... nature and female energies are one of the same... great works... the eyes are powerful. wopila tanka (big thanks) for your inspiration. I am a believer. walt

This is far beyond excellence!!! Perfect work :)

Nicole York

Yep:)

 

walt pourier

thanks...

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Artwise a beautiful and crafty composition. It must have take forever to paint the bodies both with paint and light.

On the other hand, I don't quite get the story behind it. Where/to whom do they look? Are they trying to tempt someone? If so, I don't feel tempted. Why not have at least the girl to the right look at me? She could pull me into this picture easily.

 

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Markus

I very much like the fact that she is riseing from a tree, it kinda gets me to think about something that just poped out of the "middle earth" i'm very impressed, this is the first "photograph of the week" i comment on, i just couldn't help it, stunning!

I think its interesting the way even though its a human, it looks like a sculpture, total homeostasis achieved and time stopped. There's no feeling of time here.

I think I mean to say no sense of time-motion, instead just now.

This is the second "double exposure" type pictures consecutively. Is there a trend I am seeing? I like the photograph(s), but would like it more had the left hand image been superimposed over a part of the other it would tend to connect them into one picture. I keep seeing two distinct photographs here.

 

As is my usual practice, I went to your portfolio and was amazed at your talent. This week's POW doesn't half demonstrate your abilities. You have wonderful, really marvelously painted beauties to share. In my humble estimation this double-image pales in comparison with many of the others. I highly recommend a visit to Evgeny's portfolio.

 

You are a master painter and a pretty darn good photographer as well. Your canvases are true beauties. This weeks photo is about the only monochrome in the bunch which makes me wonder about why the Elves choose this one. The colored ones are more attractive and I think more discernable as far as detail goes. It is difficult to detect the serpent in this one whereas I believe had it been in color it would have shown up better. I just wish you had overlapped the two images as I stated above. Really nice work overall.

 

Willie the Cropper

I'm not sure, but i think that this is the first nude pic that is selected as POW. This picture is pure art, so well done, not only for the photograph techniques, but also for the body painting the post production... everything. Thanks for sharing

Just my opinions:

1. Although these tones are fantastic, why waste the time and energy that went into the prep? I thought I would like it better in color, and I do.

2. I agree with the other reviewers about having the temptress looking at you. A sideways glance of the eyes would be hard to resist. And also, I would like one shot that is something between the two. She could be both posessing and offering the prize in a single image.

3. Awesome work!! Again JMHO.

I'm a little baffled as to why you paired up these two photos? Is it because one on it's own lacks some vital info/mood that the second photo provides? I my opinion providing two photos detracts from the whole...in this case "less would be more". The photo on the left would be more striking and powerful in it's composition without the other. The photo on the right really doesn't give the viewer any more important info. I think you you need to ruthlessly edit and pick one. If that is impossible then I'd rather present them as two separate photos so that it can stand on their own.

I like the image either the left or the right, leaning more towards the one on the left.

My question is, "Why two?"

- steve

Very impressive, glad this was chosen the picture of the week cause I would have missed it otherwise. Nice collaboration between model, makeup artist and photographer.

So beautiful...

Make-up and light are fantasics.

JB

It strikes me as a display of a certain type of virtuosity, but nothing more. For the second week in a row I find myself in the uncomfortable position of having to say that I do not like the picture, and perhaps I dislike it more intensely than last week's. The reason is much the same: both photos work too hard to prove that they are art. There is much to admire here, I admit. I could not do this, nor produce many of the other pictures in Evgeny's portfolio. I feel myself somewhat redeemed, however, when I ask myself a question: Why on earth would I ever want to?

 

--Lannie

Very strong composition and lighting . Nice work .

Certainly artistic and staged and planned and lots of money and time spent. "A" (as in "one" ) photograph? Hardly. Art? Yes. Aesthetic? Of course.

 

Nicely constructed, excellent execution, beautiful models... is this sculpture or photography?

Evgeny, are you the photographer, body-painter, or both? It's wonderful work.

A picture of yearning. The very stillness of this image makes me think of the rigidity of trees, and the desire one must have (if it had a conscience) to uproot and enjoy its long, slender body, and to be able to eat and taste the sweetness of the fruit from its own branches. It is as if the magical light is empowering the trees to lift themselves from the unchanging canvas of a backwater woodland, to come out into the world and warm to the new concept of social interaction.

 

The separation of the two people is reminiscent of the proximity yet isolation of trees which stand apart in a field, together but eternally bereft of contact. Sharing the same desires, but individually questing for the fulfillment.

 

Technically, the photograph is a hard exercise in blending. Pin-sharp focus and hard contrast are used to explore the gradients from tree to woman, from background to foreground, from statuary to nudity, and from inanimacy to emotion and feeling.

 

I like this black and white one better than the colour ones; those are pictures of very skillful body painting, whereas this is a photographic image which carries more than just the literal subject, but creates meaning of its own, and explores a concept outside the realms of human experience. It takes us to a place that only a camera can visit.

 

Wonderful!