Appreciation

I love seeing photos that really tell a story - even including the painting in the background.  And thank you for making this black/white.

Excellent composition !

One of the best composition I saw last time here,bw you did creates an excellent impression for this image,max for this and compliments.

FANTASTICA!!!!!, ciao Giangiorgio

Beautiful scene!

Very nice composition. Beautiful image. Regards, Jean-Marc

Superb

wonderful

Hello Christopher!

I'd like to make you acquainted with a page I've created on Facebook for professional photographers to share their work and ideas, much like we do here on photo.net

As a matter of fact, this contact is because THIS image was chosen as "photo of the day" on the page today.

This month, we're running a theme project based on conceptual photography and "story telling" with our images, I chose this image today as I fine and professional example of that! Not only is it well designed and articulated, it also engages emotionally. I SMILED!! Loved it! :o)

Please accept our humble thanks for letting us grace our page with your wonderful image, and please also accept our invitation to join us!

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Fantastic impressive humoristic shoot. Excellent the decision to take the photo in b&w.
My congrats.
Marco

This is a fantastic picture well composed and original

Well, there is beauty and then there is beauty.

The guy on the left (the teacher, I presume) seems to be trying to redirect attention back to the painting, but it is a losing battle.

I wish that I had taken this photo.

--Lannie

This is perhaps one of the best photographs I have ever seen. I truly appreciate both the simplicity and overwhelming complexity of it and am thankful it is not one of those heavily, heavily photoshopped to make it look interesting.
This should be photo.net picture of the year!

At first it seemed that that the boys were looking at the beautiful woman...but upon looking at the photo more carefully (e.g. boys lines of sight), I believe that the boys area actually looking at something beyond the woman at something outside the frame of the picture. So the photo is easily misread. Whether this is the photographer's intent it is unclear. Nevertheless, it is a dynamic striking photo.

Boys will be boys! I don't have comments for improvement, it's simply marvelous as is. While there's a slight sense of theatrics or posing, it doesn't take away from the theme or the viewers enjoyment. There's a strong Norman Rockwell element here. A fantastic image presented perfectly in composition and b/w tones... Mike

Absolutely brilliant!

Very original & humorous in a tongue in cheek sort of way. It tells a story immediately. I suppose the boys have something drawing their attention other than the painting

EXTRAORDINARY narrative piece... masterfully portrayed, flawlessly composed... Old School

Love it. One of the best POW's I've seen here in a while.

Who needs the beauty of art when you have it in real life. I'm with the boys. The painting will always be there but life's beauty fades and dies. Seize the moment. Life needs your immediate attention.

In its own understated way, this photograph demonstrates the existence of the Life Force. It is not in the painting but it is in the photograph.
Say it another way. We can do without whatever obsequious rubbish the painting is about but we cannot do without the drive to procreate.

Boys be ambitious.

That aside, does anyone get an antique feeling from the photograph--say a 1940ish feeling? I do and I like it.

You know, I think I'll renew my PN subscription today. It's things like this - encountering this wonderful piece of work - that make this site such a rewarding place.

I have decided to scroll down and not look too closely at it again, yet, because whether or not there was staging or mis-reading of the boys' line of site, my first experience of the image was tremendous, and I want to savor it that way. Terrific.

What a wonderful image.