Dry summer

It reminds me of a well done velvet painting.

 

It has that soft and surreal texture-y feel to it.

 

If Josephine has achieved her goal to make her "own fantastic world" in this 'velvet photograph', cool for her.

 

I think it will either evoke strongly negative or strongly positive or strongly unsettled feelings in the viewer.

 

I am one of the unsettled ones, as I am not a person who manipulates images.

 

But I agree with the elves about it being interesting.

I love Josephine's work and I have followed everything she has done for the last 2 years. This image is in keeping with her style and her goal of creating lush, beautiful, dreamlike work. This and all of her work display all the hallmarks of great imagination and a wonderful depth of vision that demands that Josephine go deeper than what one can usually produce in an unmanipulated image. I respect what I think she is trying to do and I always look forward to seeing what she will produce next.

 

That said I do not find this image to be one of Josephine's strongest because I think the story is somehow lost in this fascinating momentous capture of the horse shaking off the dust. We are spellbound for the moment and then we look away again when it is over. I am looking for something else in the image to continue the story but there is nothing else there....

Amazing great work! That's what Michelangelos'mother said, watching her son laying on his back while painting the ceiling of that even in dry summers pleasant cool chapel.

 

Amazing great work! That's what the restorers'mother said, watching her son laying on his back while cleaning the ceiling of that even in dry summers pleasant cool chapel.

 

Josephine, not wanting to wait for ages took her amazing original, did cover it with so called golden dust, being convinced the work was great.

 

I am now , liking the golden dust or not, just like the viewers in the chapel, very curious of the version I didn't see before..

 

Now.., for there was a moment of not being curious at all. Just that moment in only seeing the thumbnail. "Unattractive flat color, unattractive sky and unattractive composition", in two seconds my first thoughts. While seeing a kind of crash between two animals, a horse-head-leg, sheep, tail , I didn't open.

 

Choosen for the week, I did remember those seconds. Seeing the horse partially in full glory, I was a second thinking the animal did throw a kind of woollen carpet off. Some watching and the title later did open my eyes.

 

Yes and I started longing for the amazing original: unattractive color, unattractive sky, unattractive composition, however with an amazing great moment!

 

Josephine.., yes I do like your adventures!! I do like the results! However here.. I wished I could visit your original shot. Watching it in your, even in cold winters very hot, own built small wooden chapel! Great work!

Can't add much to what everyone else has said. I love everything about the photo. Composition, color treatment, etc.

 

I'd be curious to know how much PP went into producing the final image.

One of the better photos i ever seen until today!!

awesome!

I love the monochrome effect; so rich. And almost a beautiful image of a horse. I love feasting my eyes on horse photographs.

 

But too much dust, I think. An unreal amount - I would have liked it better if it didn't look like a bucket of dust was tossed on him to make the image. A normal amount of dust would have worked better, in my opinion.

 

Now if the horse was walking toward the shed, what a great shot and story that would have been.

I can't say that I've ever seen anything quite as interesting, unique or perfectly timed as this image. I'm an instant fan. Cheers, Sandra Sigfusson

Fantastic photo, i love it.

I absolutely love this!

Tom Meyer wrote:

 

"I'd love to see the image that is buried under this graphic re-orientation. "

 

I agree. It's a striking image, but what does the actual photograph look like? It's so difficult to know what you're seeing on this website. Perhaps two separate site - one for photographs and one for photo art, would be appropriate.

AWWWWWWSOME!!!

I don't consider this a photograph. Too much manipulation. It doesn't work for me, even as a work of art.